The flowing cann

Description

Title: The flowing cann
Alternative Title: Oddities. Song
Creator: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Published / Created: Publish'd Septr. 18th. [1790?]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Sold by J. Pitts, Great Saint Andrew St. ; Sold by C. Sheppard, Lambert Hill, Doctors Commons
Abstract: In two columns with the title in a ribbon atop a woodcut below stanza one. Stanzas 2 and 3 below image. A sailor at a seaside tavern (Jack Ocum) dances with a young woman as he holds his tankard. The fiddle music is played by a man who stands beside a woman in the tavern doorway. In the distance on the right is a sailing ship and along the shore, two men in a row boat
Description: Title from item.
One of the songs from Charles Dibdin's 'The oddities', first presented in 1789.
First line reads: A sailor's life's a life of woe.
Imprint transposed from above around lower edge of image and from the bottom of the sheet.
Anonymous. By Charles Dibdin.
Not in ESTC.
Provenance: Purchased from The Book Press Ltd.; October 2015.
Extent: 1 print : circular design 14.3 x 14.4 cm, on sheet 28 x 19 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Texts
Songs and music
Woodcuts England London 1790
Broadsides England London 1790
Ballads England London 1790
Material: woodcut ;
Subject (Geographic): England
England.
Subject (Topic): Ballads, English
Sailors
Couples
Dance
Ships
Signs (Notices)
Taverns (Inns)
Violins
Subjects: Ballads, English > Texts
Sailors > England > Songs and music
Ballads, English
Sailors
England
Couples
Dance
Ships
Signs (Notices)
Taverns (Inns)
Violins
England > London > 1790

Access: Public
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