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'Bramble and Jack carried into a French port'. Original illustration to Marryat's 'Poor Jack' (1840)
The ship that Bramble and his apprentice Jack (Tom Saunders) are piloting up the channel is captured by a French privateer. They are taken to France as prisoners but later escape.
Wood-engraved by Henry Vizetelly this appeared facing p. 248 in Chapter XXV of Marryat's 'Poor Jack' (1840) and is one of group of five such drawings for the novel bequeathed to the Museum in 1953. It was cat. no 237 in the Stanfield exhibition at Sunderland and Bonn in 1979. For further details see PAF6068.
Wood-engraved by Henry Vizetelly this appeared facing p. 248 in Chapter XXV of Marryat's 'Poor Jack' (1840) and is one of group of five such drawings for the novel bequeathed to the Museum in 1953. It was cat. no 237 in the Stanfield exhibition at Sunderland and Bonn in 1979. For further details see PAF6068.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAF6069 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | Drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Stanfield, Clarkson |
| Date made: | 1840 |
| People: | Poor Jack, Poor Jack; Stanfield, Clarkson |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 284 x 197 mm; Mount: 556 mm x 407 mm |