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1. The sailor's return [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [17 June 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.06.17.02+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- A sailor (just returned, his dropped knapsack in the right foreground) supports his swooning wife, overcome at seeing him return, outside a thatched cottage, while a little girl and a little boy (broom in hand) on the left hurry up to help; a pig in the foreground, two lush trees in the yard, and a ship and sea in the background; illustration to a song., Title etched below image and above verses., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered '300' in lower left of plate., Three columns of verse, each 14 lines, below title: Bleak was the morn when William left his Nancy ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd 17th June 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Bags, Brooms & brushes, Children, Couples, Dwellings, Homecomings, Sailors, British, Ships, Swine, and Young adults
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The sailor's return [graphic].
