V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
