Jack in his element [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Publish'd 17th June 1793 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
[17 June 1793]

Physical Description:

1 print : mezzotint on wove paper ; plate mark 35.3 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 37.0 x 29.0 cm

Notes:

Title engraved below image.
Numbered '301' in lower left below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Five columns of verse below title: Bold Jack the sailor, here I come, pray how d'ye like my nib ...
Gift of William M. O'Keefe; July 2010.
1 print : mezzotint ; sheet 35 x 26 cm.
Some loss of image along top edge.

Abstract:

Poll, the widow of William, stands at her cottage door in a village near the sea, a ship in full-sail in the distance, as Jack delivers the sad news of the death of her husband. In the verses engraved below recount the "jovial" life of a sailor to the refrain of "In every mess I finds a friend, in every port a wife."

Associated Names:

Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794 [Publisher]

Topics:

Dwellings
Sailors
Servants
Spouses

Language:

English

Genre:

Genre prints -- England -- 1793
Mezzotints -- England -- London -- 1793
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1793

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

793.06.17.01+ Impression 2

Orbis Record:

7945056

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr19048

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

15808823

PID:

digcoll:2804369