The cabin boy [graphic].

Creator:

Laurie & Whittle, publisher

Published/Created:

[London] :
Publish'd June 8, 1807 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London,
[8 June 1807]

Physical Description:

1 print :
etching and engraving with stipple on wove paper ;
plate mark 277 x 224 mm, on sheet 30 x 24 cm.

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Notes:

Title engraved below image.
Plate numbered '468' in lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Two lines of text above design: As sung (with unbounded applause) by Master Smalley in the popular pantomime of 'Mother Goose, or, the Golden Egg' already perform'd 87 times this season at the Theate. Royl. Cont. Gardn.
Eight lines of verse with repeated line beginning refrain arranged in two columns below title: The sea was rough, the clouds were dark; Far distant every joy, When forc'd by fortune to embark, I went a cabin boy. I went &c. My purse soon fill'd with frenchmen's gold, I hasten'd back with joy, When wreck'd in sight of port, behold The helpless Cabin Boy. I went &c.

Abstract:

"Heading to engraved verses. A theatrical cabin-boy of feminine appearance, wearing a striped shirt and dark trousers, sings with his back to the sea, and within a few inches of the breakers. On the right are pasteboard rocks. A small boat is sinking, and a castle is lit by a flash of lightning.'"--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Boys
Sailors--British
Singing
Theatrical productions

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1807
Satires (Visual works)--England--1807
Songs

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

807.06.08.01

Orbis Record:

8711923

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr04005

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires,
v. 8, no. 10948

OID:

10961553

PID:

digcoll:973848