"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., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-row, Holborn
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, British, Horses, Pipes (Smoking), Handkerchiefs, and Conversation
