Picart, Charles, approximately 1780-approximately 1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1809]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, nearly half-length, standing slightly to left against background of cloudy sky, looking to left; wearing wig, naval uniform, neckerchief and frill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1809, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
United States and United States.
Subject (Name):
Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816,, Great Britain. Royal Navy, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816., and Great Britain. Royal Navy.
"Lord Howe (left) sits cross-legged on a tailor's shop-board working at a naval coat which lies across his knees. He holds up a threaded needle in his right hand; in his left are shears with which he is about to cut the thread. He says, "I have now fi...
Alternative Title:
Black-Dick turned taylor and Black-Dick turned tailor
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1788, by G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre
Subject (Name):
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799 and Great Britain. Royal Navy
"Whereas severall merchants have petitioned for a squadron of ffrigatts to be sent toward the northern Cape & Coast of Biscay for the security of trade..." Signed, "Oliver P."
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Portugal., and Spain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Admiralty. and Great Britain. Royal Navy.
Holograph journal of the author's naval service from 1845 to 1861, with some verses dated 1867. The volume begins with a summary of his service on the HMS Seaflower, sailing between Jersey and northern France, as well as on the steam ship Sidon. He ...
Description:
Rear-Admiral John Parry Jones-Parry was born October 7, 1829, the son of Rev. J. Jones-Parry, born in Wales. He was a midshipman till November 1851; then Mate 1851-4, Lieutenant 1854-63, Commander 1863-71, and Captain in 1871. He retired in 1873, a...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Africa, East., and Africa
Subject (Name):
Baines, Matthew Talbot, 1799-1860., Bosquet, Pierre, 1810-1870., Jones-Parry, John Parry, 1829-1920., Samwell, William, b. 1832., Windham, Charles Ash, Sir, 1810-1870., and Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
Sea life, Elegiac poetry, English, Pen drawing, Poetry, English, Sailors, Sentimentalism in literature, Slave trade, Women authors, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
Three British sailors invite the captured French Admiral to sit and eat with them: " Well come sit down and do as we do. We never bear malice toa Frenchman after we have thrash'd him". The Admiral remarks: "Ah! Ag, b'egar you site dam vell, but no von...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 11, 1805, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805, History, Eating & drinking, Sailors, British, and French
A scene in a tavern cellar, with a young woman, gaily dressed, dancing a jig with a man wearing an apron; at left, a sailor playing the violin, at right, a sailor sitting on steps and leaning forward, smoking, resting his arms on a barrel, another bes...
Alternative Title:
Adieu to Old England
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd January 20th, 1818 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
History, Caricatures and cartoons, Jig (Dance), Couples, Dance, Kissing, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Manuscript on paper of a fair copy of the ship's journal kept by the first mate of the pink Batchelor from 2 November 1669, off the Cape Verde Islands, to 4 April 1670, off the coast of Patagonia. The daily entries contain details of the Batchelor's v...
Description:
This copy, which is annotated by the Earl of Sandwich, may have been made for the Royal Navy's investigation of the incident in early 1671, when the Sweepstakes was still supposed lost.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, and South Atlantic Ocean
Subject (Name):
Narbrough, John, Sir, 1640-1688., Sandwich, Edward Montagu, Earl of, 1625-1672., Batchelor (Warship), Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
History, Seafaring life, Ships, History, Naval, and Discovery and exploration
