print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1859,0316.936
- Description
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Two scenes; the first; two sailors amorously talking to the fat landlady Meg of Wapping, who holds a tureen in her hands, a dresser with kitchen accoutrements behind them; the second; sailors and their women dancing and carousing, a black musician playing a fiddle to the right, seated on a cannon, other sailors looking on, cannon balls in their holes to the foreground; illustration to Dibdin's "Songs Naval and National" (1841)
Etching
- Production date
- 1841
- Dimensions
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Height: 180 millimetres
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Width: 220 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Songs Naval and National (Illustration to the songs "Meg of Wapping" and "All Girls")
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1859,0316.936
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1859,0316.938
