Lubber's-hole, alias, The crack'd Jordan [graphic].

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Title: Lubber's-hole, alias, The crack'd Jordan [graphic].
Alternative Title: Crack'd Jordan
Cracked Jordan
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Jordan, Dorothy,--1761-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
William--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1765-1837--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created: 1791 November 1
Copyright Date: [1 November 1791]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Abstract: "A large chamber-pot, cracked, stands (left) supported by the legs of Mrs. Jordan. The Duke of Clarence has thrust his head and shoulders within a fissure in the 'Jordan', singing a chanty, "Yeo! Yee! Yeo!" He is in back view and wears striped sailor's trousers; his naval coat with its star hangs on the wall (right)."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.7 x 21.2 cm, on sheet 33.2 x 25.2 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1791.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1791.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Jordan, Dorothy,--1761-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
William--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1765-1837--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic): Chamber pots.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7909
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 134