Jack Tar admiring the fair sex [graphic]

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Title: Jack Tar admiring the fair sex [graphic]
Contributor: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Published / Created: [1815]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Quayside with a sailor leaning on a bollard talking to two prostitutes, one black, one white; in the background two sailing ships and a rowing boat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Design is similar to that of a Rowlandson print from 1812 entitled "Sea stories." Cf. No. 11960 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted on leaf 65 of volume 13 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35 x 24.8, on sheet 35.8 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1815
Etchings England London 1815
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1815
England > London > 1815
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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