print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.7140
- Title
- Object: My Poll & my partner Joe.
- Description
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A sailor (right) and a fat, ugly, disreputable woman (left) dance with tipsy joviality. They face each other, each holding the other's left hand. He holds up a small covered jug (holding the publican's dram). Her feet appear through tattered shoes and stockings; one eye is closed. He wears a round hat, pigtail, short jacket, petticoat, and long striped stockings. 18 April 1796
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1796
- Dimensions
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Height: 323 millimetres
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Width: 254 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)
An illustration to Dibdin's popular song, called 'The Waterman': the hero was taken by a press-gang and returned to find his wife Poll in Joe's arms. 'Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin', ii. 240, 250-2. A (sentimental) mezzotint of the subject published by Sayer, 6 Dec. 1790, is in the Print Room.
Grego, 'Gillray', p. 210. Wright and Evans, No. 420. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.7140