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

  • Nicol, Erskine, 1825-1904.
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[not after 1867]
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589285i
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An Irishman looks at a poster advertising voyages to New York and resolves to emigrate. Coloured lithograph after E. Nicol, ca. 1840/1860. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The poster advertises passages from Dublin to New York on the ship Shamrock. Right, the port of Dublin with the dome of the Custom House

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

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

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Lettering

Outward bound. (Dublin.)

References note

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

Notes

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

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Wellcome Collection 589285i

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