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The fortunate sailor [print].

Accession number
PML 143905.48
Published
London : Published as the Act directs. 1 Oct 1834 (From Original Drawings) by J.L. Marks, 91 Long Lane, Smithfield, [1834]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Forms part of a bound album containing a collection of prints published by J.L. Marks and the later firm of S. Marks and Sons (see "John Lewis Marks album," PML 143905).
Description
1 print : etching, aquatint, and stipple ; image: 183 x 150 mm ; sheet: 252 x 200 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Prints shows a sailor greeting a young woman in front of a cottage by the sea; she sits on a bench beneath a window at left as he puts his arm around her neck and holds up a pouch of money; a sailing ship with smaller vessels is shown in the background at right.
Classification
Department