Ganymede & Jack-Catch [graphic]

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Title: Ganymede & Jack-Catch [graphic]
Alternative Title: Ganymede and Jack-Catch
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [1771]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. 39 Strand by MDarly
Abstract: "Samuel Drybutter, a well-known homosexual, standing in fetters whole length in profile to left, conversing with Jack Catch (or Ketch, the public hangman) who holds a halter in his right hand and says, "Dammee Sammy your a sweet pretty creature & I long to have you at the end of my String", to which Drybutter replies, "You don't love me Jacky"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Imperfect; first word "Dammee" in Jack Catch's speech bubble has been erased from sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "9" in upper right corner.
Temporary local subject terms: John Ketch -- Capital punishment: Manacles.
First of two plates on leaf 47.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.5 x 17.7 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 47. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Portrait prints
Satires (Visual works) England 1771
Etchings England London 1771
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Drybutter, Samuel, 1729-1787,
Subject (Topic): Gay men
Executioners
Nooses
Shackles
Subjects: Drybutter, Samuel, 1729-1787
Gay men
Executioners
Nooses
Shackles
England > 1771
England > London > 1771

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