The Greenwich pensioner [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The Greenwich pensioner [graphic]
- Creator
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Contributor
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Fores, S. W., publisher.
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814. - Published / Created
- [25 June 1791]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. June 25, 1791, by W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
- Abstract
-
Broadside ballad by Charles Dibdin, with an etched headpiece showing the interior of a tavern with a one-legged pensioner holding a beer tankard decorated with an anchor (center), singing the song, while a maid holds a mug to another who has lost both arms (left). On the right two men play a game (draughts?) at a table. On the wall behind them is another broadside 'Poor Jack', also about a sailor with words by Dibdin. On the windows at the entrance of the tavern are postings advertising rum and gin. Several are dressed in the uniform of Greenwich pensioners
- Description
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Title from letterpress caption title below image and above verses: " ... written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The oddities."
Lettered with the artist's initials in the one-legged pensioner's hat and with his full name on the edge of the table on the right.
Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, by Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, where may be had, price 6d. plain and 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Bachelors' Hall, Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, The Barber's Wedding, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibding and others. In Fores's exhibition may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides of illustration.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. v.
- Extent
- 1 print : design 16.5 x 23.7 cm, on sheet 39 x 25 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 791.06.25.02
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Ballads
Publishers' advertisements - Material
- etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
- Subject (Topic)
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Amputees
Crutches
Dance
Disabled veterans
Games
Interiors
Peg legs
Pipes (Smoking)
Sailors
British
Manners & customs
Taverns (Inns) - Subjects
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Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich
Amputees
Crutches
Dance
Disabled veterans
Games
Interiors
Peg legs
Pipes (Smoking)
Sailors > British > Manners & customs
Taverns (Inns)
England > 1791
England > London > 1791
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 7773119
- Object ID (OID)
- 10732597