Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: The Cabin. The steward in full costume, and having "bane and antidote both before him ..., Secondary sheet attached to print 10 x 17 cm., and Watermark: C Ansell.
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Curtains -- Candles., and Watermark: C Ansell [trimmed].
"Two burly fierce-looking sailors drink together; each sits on an inverted tub, smoking a pipe, a paper of tobacco on the plain round table between them. One (l.) says: "Why Jack! you was so long in a French Prison, I suppose you larnt to patter their Lingo a little." The other answers: "No Bob, I never some how fancied it they call things out of their names so d----nably, - why would you believe it, they call a Horse a Shovel, and a Hat a Chopper!!!""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Jack Junk's opinion of the French language
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from watermark., and Watermark: C Ansell 1822.
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Door Knocker -- Sword -- Shoe Scraper -- Spurs -- Jack Boots -- Capt. Birch., and Watermark: C. Ansell 1822.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 10th, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly