The sailor riding to Portsmouth [graphic].

Description

Title: The sailor riding to Portsmouth [graphic].
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: published as the act directs, 20 May 1782.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Abstract: A sailor, holding a bowl of water, sits on a bucking horse. The townspeople seem to mock the sailor
Description: Title from caption below image.
Numbered "475" in lower left corner.
No. 22 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries.
Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Provenance: From the H.J. Peters sale, Sotheby's, lot 230; December 1960;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.2 x 26 cm, on sheet 38.3 x 28 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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