A jig on board [graphic]

Description

Title: A jig on board [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Contributor: Hehl, Captain, active 1818, artist.
Hehl, Captain, active 1818, attributed name.
Published / Created: [1818]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A sailor and a young woman dance a jig on the deck of a man-of-war, watched by a sailor leaning from the forecastle roof (right). They dance side by side, man's left arm raised, holding his hat, woman with hands on hips."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue.
Attributed to Captain Hehl in British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins.
Watermark: GP. 1813.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xvi, p. 43.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26.4 x 34.5 cm, on sheet 27 x 37 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1818
Etchings England London 1818
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dance
Sailors
British
Ships
Subjects: Dance
Sailors > British
Ships
England > 1818
England > London > 1818

Access: Public
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