Tom Tack's ghost [graphic].
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Description
- 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
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"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.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 28 x 21.5 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm.
Leaf 71 in volume 1. - Provenance
- Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 27.7 x 20.4 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.1
- Collection Title
- V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1808
Etchings England London 1808 - Material
- etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1808
England > London > 1808
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership
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
- Orbis Record
- 8799729
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192685
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