Sailors conversing on horseback [graphic]

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Title: Sailors conversing on horseback [graphic]
Creator: Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1803]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-row, Holborn
Abstract: "Social satire; two sailors on horseback, one with a pipe in his hatband on a small white horse with a spotted handkerchief on a stick attached to its bridle, the other smoking a pipe on a large brown horse; they ask each other how their journeys on their horses have been, using language associated with ships, for example: "endeavouring to double the point at Mile-end she fell foul of a dray, and smack she lay me keel upermost in a stinking ditch ... I hoisted my pocket handkerchief on her topmast as a sign of distress, which was seen by some comrades at anchor in the moorings. ..."."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.711.
For another print by Roberts dealing with sailors during the Peace of Amiens, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1990,1109.69.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Justin Croft; September 2020.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.8 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 26.6 x 36.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English