An Irishman looks at a poster advertising voyages to New York and resolves to emigrate. Coloured lithograph after E. Nicol, ca. 1840/1860.

Berlin (Unter d. Linden 57) : F. Sala and Co., [not after 1867]

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 26 x 19.2 cm

Outward bound. (Dublin.)

There is a companion print, "Homeward bound", showing a prosperous Irishman in New York contemplating a return to Ireland

Charles Henry Cook, 'St Patrick's Day', oil painting, 1867, in the National library of Ireland (the painting uses Nicol's print in the top right corner to symbolise the potential for emigration for a young girl who is dancing with a soldier in an Irish public house)

Claudia Kinmonth, Irish rural interiors in art, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006

Wellcome Collection 589285i