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10. Nautical dispute [graphic]
- Creator:
- Phillips, John, active 1825-1831, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Nov. 21, 1827.
- Call Number:
- 827.11.21.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "In a bare but neat ale-house room three Greenwich pensioners are in deep and heated discussion at a table before the fire. They point to fragments of pipe stem, arranged to show the position of ships in some engagement. Two sit, one stands; two have peg-legs. A fourth man (left) watches intently. The host (right) enters with frothing tankards."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman 1827.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. Gillard, 40, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
- Subject (Topic):
- Amputees, Peg legs, Disabled veterans, Interiors, Sailors, British, Taverns (Inns), and Drinking vessels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Nautical dispute [graphic]
11. Nautical politeness, or, British sailors perusing the dispatches from Cadiz [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1818]
- Call Number:
- 808.07.00.01.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three sailors sitting on trunks on board a ship, grimacing as they read papers. At centre one points to his paper, saying, 'Did you ever hear such palaver Jack - Just before an Action'; his paper is inscribed, 'nothing opposes the individual esteem entertaind for your excellency by your faithfull servant / J Moore / Cadiz'. At left, a sailor reads a paper inscribed, 'I am your Excellrncys most Humble Servant / Rossily'; his trunk is lettered 'Will bo[...]'. At right the third says, 'Be quiet you lubbers, you dont know how to be polite - one of the Mounseers has ax'd me a little time, before I blow him up, and see what a civil letter I have sent him.'; his trunk is lettered 'Junk' and his paper, 'Mounseer / I had the honor of your this morning, and if you don't surrender by six in the evening, I'll be d-d if I dont blow you up / yours / to command / Jack Junk'. On the floor in the foreground, a tankard of 'Grog', a pipe and broadsides, one of which is headed 'True courage'; a cannon behind at left. Reissue by Fores of a print originally published c. July 1808."--British Museum online catalogue and "In May-July 1808, at the beginning of the Peninsular war, the British fleet helped to defend the Spanish in Cádiz from the French fleet led by Rosily; the British officer John Moore left England for Portugal in July 1808. The imprint indicates a reissue, giving the address line used by Fores in 1818-19."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- British sailors perusing the dispatches from Cadiz
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.697., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
- Subject (Name):
- Moore, John, Sir, 1761-1809. and Rosily-Mesros, François de, 1748-1832.
- Subject (Topic):
- Peninsular War, 1807-1814, Sailors, British, Decks (Ships), Luggage, Newspapers, Cannons, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Nautical politeness, or, British sailors perusing the dispatches from Cadiz [graphic].
12. Politics inside out a farce. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ramberg, Johann Heinrich, 1763-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 October 1787]
- Call Number:
- 787.10.21.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "One of a set of four: see British Museum Satires No. 7176. France, as an elderly and ugly petit-maître (right), his hat under his arm, holds out obsequiously an empty purse and a snuff-box towards Holland, a stout peasant who kneels at his feet, weeping and clasping his hands in supplication. Behind Holland stand a Prussian soldier, threatening him with his bayonet, and England, a sailor who clenches his fists. In the background (right) is a windmill. Beneath the design is engraved: 'Prussian: Orange for ever! and respect to the Ladies. English: Confess yourself a French Dog! Dutch: Help me out Monsieur! you brought me in. Frenchm: Me beg to be excused. Bygar me have nothing to give; & me remember the Duke of Bronsvic, Pitt, Rosbac & Minden'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Dutch and United Provinces -- Military uniform: Prussian soldier -- Military uniform: British sailor -- Musket with bayonet., DeGrey's ms. note on verso., and Watermark: C Patch on the right side of sheet; Strasburg lily on the left.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Octr. 21st, 1787 by T. Harmar, No. 164 (opposite Bond Street) Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethnic stereotypes, Sailors, British, Military uniforms, Prussian, Rifles, and Bayonets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Politics inside out a farce. [graphic]
13. Popular exclamations [graphic]
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [3 November1794]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 794.11.03.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Design consists of twenty-two figures in two rows, each with text etched above., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge and to plate mark on other edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1794 -- Female costume, 1794 -- Conventions -- Reference to guillotine -- Allusion to French Revolution -- Reference to Jacobins -- Male costume: Reference to sans-culottes -- Black females., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Novemer [sic] 3, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Lawyers, Physicians, Sailors, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Popular exclamations [graphic]
