Equestrian portrait of Sir John Moore, riding to the left, his brown horse rearing up; one hand holding the reins and the other gesturing with his drawn saber; wearing a bicorne with a feather cockade on his head, star on the breast of his military uniform; a landscape with a military encampment beyond
Alternative Title:
Lieutenant General Sir John Moore, K.B.
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Nicholson, W. The history of the wars occasioned by the French Revolution. London : R. Evans, 1816., "Page 406"--Lower right., and Watermark: 1818.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1, 1815, by Richd. Evans, Whites Row, Spitalfields, London
"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)
