print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1978,U.2527
- Description
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Two scenes; the first; a sailor giving the wife of his messmate his last shilling, her child at her side, buildings beyond, a vignette of a gentleman seated at a table in a bare room below; the second; a sailor staring amorously at a pretty girl selling watercress from a basket, buildings beyond, a vignette of the sailor and the girl dancing in the street coming out of a tavern below; illustration to Dibdin's "Songs Naval and National" (1841)
Etching
- Production date
- 1841
- Dimensions
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Height: 185 millimetres
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Width: 221 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Songs Naval and National (Illustration to the songs "The Last Shilling" and "Jack Come Home")
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,U.2527
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179
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Miscellaneous number: 1978,U.2526
