Tom Tack's ghost [graphic].

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Title: Tom Tack's ghost [graphic].
Creator: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Contributor: Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: Feb. 7-1808.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract: "Heading to an engraved song. Two sailors stand in a man-of-war; hammocks are slung from the roof, guns project from port-holes. One (left) is wrapped in a sheet over his sailor's dress. The other relates how he shot Tom Tack who 'com'd from Boney-Ayrs', in a quarrel over Polly of Spithead. Tom visited him wrapped in a sheet, but is threatened with a rope's end. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Charles Williams in the British Museum online catalogue.
Forty lines of verse below title: I courted Polly of Spithead, and ax'd her to be married; at first she was most cruel kind, but she prov'd false as you shall find ...
Plate numbered "38" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 27.7 x 20.4 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 808.02.07.01
Collection Title: V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1808
Etchings England London 1808
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1808
England > London > 1808
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

Access: Public
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