[Pair] Plate 1. The Contented Waterman / Plate 2. Jack in the Bilboes.[Plate 1.] From Mr. Dibdin's celebrated Song, call'd My Poll & my partner Joe. My pot was smug, well fill'd my keg, My grunter in the sty. / [Plate 2.] From Mr. Dibdin's celebrated Song, call'd My Poll & my partner Joe. Till woe is me so lubberly, The press gang came and pressed me.
Painted by G. Morland. Engraved by W. Ward.
Published as the Act directs, Sept. 8. 1806, by James Linnell, No. 2 Streatham Str. Charlotte Str. Bloomsbury.
Pair of mezzotints, very fine colour with large margins & rare; printed in colour. Plate size: 460 x 410mm, 18 x 16" each. Unexamined out of frame.
Plate 1. Subject from Charles Dibdin's 'the Waterman'; a family outside a small house on the waterfront, with a view of the river to left, and a small boat tethered alongside, the waterman standing leaning on the back of a chair upon the seat of which his young daugther leans playing with a doll, his wife seated sewing at left with dog at feet, a young man seated to right, drinking, beside a pig in its sty. Plate 2. A pressgang seizing a waterman on the morning of his wedding day.
Frankau: 71 II of II; 169 II of II.
[Ref: 28093] £950.00
Published as the Act directs, Sept. 8. 1806, by James Linnell, No. 2 Streatham Str. Charlotte Str. Bloomsbury.
Pair of mezzotints, very fine colour with large margins & rare; printed in colour. Plate size: 460 x 410mm, 18 x 16" each. Unexamined out of frame.
Plate 1. Subject from Charles Dibdin's 'the Waterman'; a family outside a small house on the waterfront, with a view of the river to left, and a small boat tethered alongside, the waterman standing leaning on the back of a chair upon the seat of which his young daugther leans playing with a doll, his wife seated sewing at left with dog at feet, a young man seated to right, drinking, beside a pig in its sty. Plate 2. A pressgang seizing a waterman on the morning of his wedding day.
Frankau: 71 II of II; 169 II of II.
[Ref: 28093] £950.00