Tregear's Flights of Humour No 27, (Song 3d)

Print - Caricature of a sailor returning to his wife/girlfriend, with the following inscription which contains historical and offensive terms: 'Your Molly has never been false, she declares, since the last time we parted at Wapping old stairs. Then how is it you have got that young nigger, Why Jack that wasn't the last time you know.'

Object Details

ID: PAD4778
Collection: Fine art
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Seymour, Robert; Tregear, Gabriel Shire
Date made: Aug 1833
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 331 mm x 241 mm; Image: 331 mm x 241 mm; Mount: 476 mm x 315 mm
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