The sailor's return [graphic].

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Title: The sailor's return [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [17 June 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd 17th June 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Description: A sailor (just returned, his dropped knapsack in the right foreground) supports his swooning wife, overcome at seeing him return, outside a thatched cottage, while a little girl and a little boy (broom in hand) on the left hurry up to help; a pig in the foreground, two lush trees in the yard, and a ship and sea in the background; illustration to a song.
Title etched below image and above verses.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Numbered '300' in lower left of plate.
Three columns of verse, each 14 lines, below title: Bleak was the morn when William left his Nancy ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark.
Provenance: Old Print Shop; October 1959;
Extent: 1 print : sheet x cm.
Language: English

Genre: Poems
Songs
Genre prints
Mezzotints England London 1793
Material: mezzotint, hand-colored ;
Subject (Topic): Bags
Brooms & brushes
Children
Couples
Dwellings
Homecomings
Sailors
British
Ships
Swine
Young adults
Subjects: Bags
Brooms & brushes
Children
Couples
Dwellings
Homecomings
Sailors > British
Ships > British
Swine
Young adults
England > London > 1793

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