The lucky escape, or, Jolly carpenter [graphic].

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Title: The lucky escape, or, Jolly carpenter [graphic].
Alternative Title: Jolly carpenter
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [24 October 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 24th Octr. 1793 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Abstract: Outside a pretty well-kept cottage a young woman kneels pleading before a farmer in a smock holding his hand as she jestures to a sailor. The sailor in response jestures to her. In the distance is a ship on the water. A bird hangs in a cage just outside the door; chickens eat from a bowl while a plough sits in the foreground on the right
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Numbered '306' in lower left of plate.
Four numbered columns of verse below title: I that once was a ploughman, a sailor am now ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: cottages -- Young women.
Provenance: Old Print Shop; October 1959;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Genre prints
Mezzotints England London 1793
Material: mezzotint with etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Birdcages
Carpenters
Chickens
Dwellings
Plows
Sailors
British
Ships
Subjects: Birdcages
Carpenters
Chickens
Dwellings
Plows
Sailors > British
Ships
England > London > 1793

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