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- Creator:
- Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
- Published / Created:
- Publish'd Septr. 18th. [1790?]
- Call Number:
- 790.09.18.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- In two columns with the title in a ribbon atop a woodcut below stanza one. Stanzas 2 and 3 below image. A sailor at a seaside tavern (Jack Ocum) dances with a young woman as he holds his tankard. The fiddle music is played by a man who stands beside a woman in the tavern doorway. In the distance on the right is a sailing ship and along the shore, two men in a row boat
- Alternative Title:
- Oddities. Song
- Description:
- Title from item., One of the songs from Charles Dibdin's 'The oddities', first presented in 1789., First line reads: A sailor's life's a life of woe., Imprint transposed from above around lower edge of image and from the bottom of the sheet., Anonymous. By Charles Dibdin., and Not in ESTC.
- Publisher:
- Sold by J. Pitts, Great Saint Andrew St. ; Sold by C. Sheppard, Lambert Hill, Doctors Commons
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballads, English, Sailors, Couples, Dance, Ships, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Violins
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The flowing cann