Bless Your Heart · Stop No. 13
Anne Bonny
“Bless your heart, Jack”
- Era
- Golden Age of Piracy, 1720
- Provenance
- The Caribbean, then a courtroom
- Medium
- Limited-run woodcut with Spanish moss
- Edition
- Limited run
When Calico Jack was captured because his crew was too drunk to fight, Anne Bonny — who had fought — offered her assessment at his hanging: had he fought like a man, he need not have died like a dog. This print translates the sentiment into Southern. The noose, cutlass, pistol, and crow are all witnesses for the prosecution.
The impression carries a compositor's error in the closing line — 'BLESS YOUR, HEART, JACK' — with the first comma displaced. The registrar has elected to preserve the error; Anne would have wanted Jack to see it.
On Display
The Gift Shop
- Museum Reproduction Tee
- Exhibition Poster