The sailors Fleet wedding entertainment [engraving]
1747
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
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Title
The sailors Fleet wedding entertainment [engraving]
Published
[London] : Published according to act of Parliament ... by M. Cooper, 1747
Description
1 engraving : ill. ; 22 x 30 on a leaf 45 x 29 cm.
Call Number
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
Note
For a description, see: M. Dorothy George, Hogarth to Cruikshank (1987), p. 34. It is apparently a sequel to another satiric print entitled "A Fleet wedding between a brisk young sailor & his landlady's daughter at Redriff." Both refer to the unsavory atmosphere in Fleet Street, where quick marriages were performed by unethical lawyers and parsons, often uniting prostitutes with innocents.
In this caricature, a wedding feast is interrupted by creditors who have come to arrest the groom for his wife's debts
With 16 lines of verse beneath the image describing various aspects of the bawdy scene.
On leaf 215v of The Tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-57
In this caricature, a wedding feast is interrupted by creditors who have come to arrest the groom for his wife's debts
With 16 lines of verse beneath the image describing various aspects of the bawdy scene.
On leaf 215v of The Tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-57
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