Poor Jack! [graphic].published as the act directs 9 Nov. 1790.eng"An illustration of the song 'By Mr. Dibdin', which is engraved beneath the title, with the refrain, 'There's a sweet little cherub sits perch'd up aloft To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack. ' Jack stands, looking at the spectator, holding a cane in his right hand, with his left he points up towards the head and wings of a cherub which emerges from clouds in the upper right corner of the design. He wears a round high-crowned hat, his hair, cut across his forehead, falls curling on his shoulders. He has a striped waistcoat with short coat and petticoat. Behind is the sea with a ship flying the Union flag."--British Museum online catalogueTitle from caption for verses etched below image.After Robert Dighton. See British Museum online catalogue.Verse in four columns below title begins: "Go patter to bubbers and swabs, d'ye see, 'bout danger, and fear, and the like ..."Numbered "600" in lower left corner.Sheet trimmed to plate mark.For description of later state published by Bowles & Carver see no. 7817 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.