Tom Tack's ghost [graphic].Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmakerFeb. 7-1808.eng"Heading to an engraved song. Two sailors stand in a man-of-war; hammocks are slung from the roof, guns project from port-holes. One (left) is wrapped in a sheet over his sailor's dress. The other relates how he shot Tom Tack who 'com'd from Boney-Ayrs', in a quarrel over Polly of Spithead. Tom visited him wrapped in a sheet, but is threatened with a rope's end. ..."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Printmaker identified as Charles Williams in the British Museum online catalogue.Forty lines of verse below title: I courted Polly of Spithead, and ax'd her to be married; at first she was most cruel kind, but she prov'd false as you shall find ...Plate numbered "38" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.Also issued separately.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.