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The Greenwich pensioner
Title
The Greenwich pensioner [graphic] / IC ; I. Cruikshank del.
Publication
London : Pub. June 25, 1791, by W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly, [25 June 1791]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; design 16.5 x 23.7 cm, on sheet 39 x 25 cm
Medium
laid paper
Notes
Title from letterpress caption title below image and above verses: " ... written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The oddities."
Lettered with the artist's initials in the one-legged pensioner's hat and with his full name on the edge of the table on the right.
Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, by Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, where may be had, price 6d. plain and 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Bachelors' Hall, Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, The Barber's Wedding, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibding and others. In Fores's exhibition may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides of illustration.
Summary
Broadside ballad by Charles Dibdin, with an etched headpiece showing the interior of a tavern with a one-legged pensioner holding a beer tankard decorated with an anchor (center), singing the song, while a maid holds a mug to another who has lost both arms (left). On the right two men play a game (draughts?) at a table. On the wall behind them is another broadside 'Poor Jack', also about a sailor with words by Dibdin. On the windows at the entrance of the tavern are postings advertising rum and gin. Several are dressed in the uniform of Greenwich pensioners.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 16, 2007
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1791.
Etchings - England - London - 1791.
Ballads.
Publishers' advertisements.
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