Cattle not insurable [graphic]

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Title: Cattle not insurable [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 December 1809]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Decr. 1st 1809 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Abstract: A ship's boat filled with rollicking prostitutes, cheering and lifting glasses as they are rowed towards a ship on the right extreme left, with guns projecting from port-holes; two women climb on board by a rope-ladder from a boat, watched by sailors and an officer, while from a window of the captain's cabin another woman looks out. Two other ships, one in full sail, are shown on the left
Description: Title from item.
Compare to "Exporting cattle not insurable".
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. III, 1786.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 23.8 x 33.8 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1809
Etchings England London 1809
Material: etching with aquatint & stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Prostitutes
Sailors
British
Ships
Subjects: Prostitutes
Sailors > British
Ships > British
England > 1809
England > London > 1809

Access: Public
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