The Jailbird, Illustration for "Königl: Grosbrit [anische] Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1780 Jahr Lauenberg bey J.G. Berenberg"
date: label: Date
content: 1779
name: label: Print Maker
content: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, German, 1726 - 1801
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A prisoner lying on the floor of his cell gazes at the jailer, who enters. The poem says that the jailer does not speak and hurries away. How dreadful that the only man seen shows no sign of commiseration.
place: label: made in
content: Germany
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-22-363
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stipple and line engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.3 × 6.2 cm (4 1/16 × 2 7/16 in.)