Poor Jack! [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Poor Jack! [graphic].
- Contributor
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Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher. - Published / Created
- published as the act directs 9 Nov. 1790.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Abstract
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"An illustration of the song 'By Mr. Dibdin', which is engraved beneath the title, with the refrain, 'There's a sweet little cherub sits perch'd up aloft To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack. ' Jack stands, looking at the spectator, holding a cane in his right hand, with his left he points up towards the head and wings of a cherub which emerges from clouds in the upper right corner of the design. He wears a round high-crowned hat, his hair, cut across his forehead, falls curling on his shoulders. He has a striped waistcoat with short coat and petticoat. Behind is the sea with a ship flying the Union flag."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title from caption for verses etched below image.
After Robert Dighton. See British Museum online catalogue.
Verse in four columns below title begins: "Go patter to bubbers and swabs, d'ye see, 'bout danger, and fear, and the like ..."
Numbered "600" in lower left corner.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
For description of later state published by Bowles & Carver see no. 7817 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
No. 39 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 : sheet 35.3 x 25.0 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 C697 770
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1790
Mezzotints England London 1790 - Material
- mezzotint ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1790
England > London > 1790
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 11663124
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192350
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