Point Street, Portsmouth, or, The coxswain's carousal [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Point Street, Portsmouth, or, The coxswain's carousal [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Coxswain's carousal
- Creator
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Contributor
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Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist.
Sherwood, Jones, and Co., publisher. - Published / Created
- Nov. 1, 1826.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Published by Sherwood & Co.
- Abstract
-
A view of wartime merriment: A procession of sailors and their women, escorted by fiddlers, passes a background of shops towards a gateway across the end of the street (left). The purveyor of the jollification, a sailor who has inherited money, sits astride a cask of 'real Jamaica' supported on poles carried by sailors, who wave hat and tankard towards the crowded first-floor windows. Men and women dance along the street. There are many incidents. A Jew, talking to another Jew outside a shop placarded 'Moses Slop-Shop', has his hat twitched off by the cane of a sailor who leans from above the doorway. The sailors carry an Ensign flag and a flag inscribed 'Leander, and are making for the Point
- Description
-
Title from caption below image.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Year of publication altered. Ms. '6' added over last digit of 1825. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xviii.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 14.7 x 24 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 825.11.01.02
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1825
Etchings England London 1825
Aquatints England London 1825 - Material
- aquatint and etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Jews
Celebrations
Crowds
Couples
Flags
Intoxication
Painted wall signs
Parades & processions
Sailors
British
Stores & shops - Subjects
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Jews
Celebrations
Crowds
Couples
Flags
Intoxication
Painted wall signs
Parades & processions
Sailors > British
Stores & shops
England > 1825
England > London > 1825
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
- 9664598
- Object ID (OID)
- 11128620