Sailors on horseback [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Sailors on horseback [graphic]
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [16 March 1811]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. March 16, 1811 by Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
-
"Three sailors ride away from the sea-shore (right) where a man-of-war is at anchor. All are in difficulties. A fourth is on his hands and knees on the extreme left; he looks up to say: "Mind what you are at Messmates for I am upset, and the frigate I came on board of--has been under weigh, without me this half hour." The foremost, clasping his rearing horse round the neck, looks back to say: "Keep more to the Star-board and be D--d, to you--dont you see how you make my vessel, run a head." The next man is tied to his galloping mount with heavy ropes; and he says: "Here I come my Hearty's --Right and tight,--smart sailing, but never mind that--I cant be cast away for my commander, Heavens bless him has lash'd me to the deck, with some tough Old Cables!" The last sailor's horse kicks with tail erect; he exclaims: "D--n me--how she heaves. Why this is worse than a Jolly Boat, in the Bay of Biscay. and what a D--d noise she makes in her poop--Signals for sailing I suppose.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title from caption below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Price one shilling."
Plate numbered "62" in the upper right corner.
Part of text on print erased and replaced with manuscript. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiv, p. 90.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 24 x 35 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 811.03.16.01.1+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1811
Etchings England London 1811 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Sailors
British - Subjects
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England > 1811
Sailors > British
England > London > 1811
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9165773
- Object ID (OID)
- 10964788