Chealsea Reach [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827[1799]eng"Scene on the Thames near Chelsea; a large pleasure party of young men and women on a boat, drinking toasts, rowed by six watermen wearing jockey caps, a servant and two men playing French horns at the helm at right, where a union jack is flying from a pole; other boats on the water behind, bridge and church at left, the Chelsea Hospital on the bank beyond at centre."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Plate possibly first published in 1789. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 262.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from lower edge. Title supplied from impression in the British Museum.Companion print to: Bay of Biscay.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.Temporary local subject terms: Boats: shallop -- Chelsea -- Flute -- Watermen -- Buildings: Battersea Church.Title written in ink on mounting paper below image, perhaps in a contemporary hand: Chelsea-Reach; same title also written in red ink on verso of print.Window mounted to 25 x 35 cm.