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- Creator:
- Shepheard, George, 1770-1842, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 January 1796]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 94. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two sailors stand behind a stout woman with a mischievous look on her face and eagerly attempt to embrace her. A soldier wearing a tricorne and carrying a musket stands on the right and watches the scene. An arched passageway is visible on the wall in the background; a low pylon with chains attached is seen on the far left
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One of a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury that were first published by Thomas Macklin., For a mention of the reissued set of plates published 1 January 1809 by J. Deeley, see no. 11456 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted on page 94 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- Published Jany. 10th, 1796, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Sailors, Soldiers, and Rifles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sweet Poll of Plymouth [graphic]