"A Broadside."

"A Broadside."

Cuala Press

Complete sets of seven series designed by Jack Yeats, 1908 to 1915.

These broadsides, a selection of which are shown here, were published monthly in an edition of three hundred and appeared in seven annual series, beginning in June 1908 and concluding in May 1915. Each broadside contains several drawings by Jack Yeats, some in color and some in black and white, along with a ballad or poem, often unattributed and implied to be traditional. The eclectic ballad topics range from local Irish loves and losses and the oppression of the British to the life of the American outlaw Jesse James as well as the exile of Napoleon.