"Two sailors are bargaining with a scantily clad Indian girl with a basket of fruit. Although pineapples were luxury goods at this time, the mirror, and in particular the watch offered by the seaman on the left represent a disproportionately high price for the fruit. The girl’s hairstyle resembles a pineapple reinforcing the point that she is the object of their attention rather than her wares. The two men are dressed in their shore-going clothes with buckled shoes and silk stockings. They wear baggy cotton trousers and short jackets. The sleeve of the left-hand sailor has a mariner’s cuff outlined in white piping and his wool jacket has metal buttons, which are probably made of brass. He wears a straw hat and his hair is done in a pigtail or queue. Both men have large silk neckerchiefs probably originating in India. Sailor’s dress was much the same in the merchant service and the navy. There was no uniform for the lower ranks at this time."--Collections online, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Object ID: PAI4974
Description:
Title from text below image. and Companion print to: British plenty.
Publisher:
Published Jan. 1st, 1794, by C. Knight at Wm. Bonds, No. 98 Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place, London
Title from item., Below title: You can't beat the Axis if you get VD., Date derived from reference to the "Axis"., Publisher supplied by curator., In lower left corner: VDgraphic-9., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Venereal Disease Education Institute
Subject (Topic):
Sexually transmitted diseases, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, World War, 1939-1945, Prostitution, Soldiers, Sailors, and Prostitutes
Volume 2, page 94. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two sailors stand behind a stout woman with a mischievous look on her face and eagerly attempt to embrace her. A soldier wearing a tricorne and carrying a musket stands on the right and watches the scene. An arched passageway is visible on the wall in the background; a low pylon with chains attached is seen on the far left
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One of a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury that were first published by Thomas Macklin., For a mention of the reissued set of plates published 1 January 1809 by J. Deeley, see no. 11456 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted on page 94 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 10th, 1796, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Verse in four numbered parts begins: "A seamen of Plymouth, sweet William by name,"., In four columns with the title above the first two and the imprint below the last column; the columns are not separated by rules., Cf. no. T192396 in ESTC., Mounted on leaf 74. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-lane, West-Smithfield, London
A sailor on crutches, one trousers leg pinned up where his left leg is missing, stands in the grounds of a large building, possibly a veterans' hospital
Alternative Title:
We've still got a big job to do!
Description:
In margin lower left: 1943-O-564207., In margin lower right: Official Navy Poster, Industrial Incentive Division, 4--80M., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Industrial Incentive Division and U.S. Government Printing Office
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1939-1945, Veterans, War casualties, Amputees, Rehabilitation, Employment, Sailors, Wounds & injuries, and Crutches
Verse - "A sailor courted a farmer's daughter,". - In four columns with the title and an ornamental rule above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 53. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Man-woman relationships, Young men, Conduct of life, Young women, Sailors, and Wealth
Broadside ballad by Charles Dibdin, with an etched headpiece showing the interior of a tavern with a one-legged pensioner holding a beer tankard decorated with an anchor (center), singing the song, while a maid holds a mug to another who has lost both arms (left). On the right two men play a game (draughts?) at a table. On the wall behind them is another broadside 'Poor Jack', also about a sailor with words by Dibdin. On the windows at the entrance of the tavern are postings advertising rum and gin. Several are dressed in the uniform of Greenwich pensioners
Description:
Title from letterpress caption title below image and above verses: " ... written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The oddities.", Lettered with the artist's initials in the one-legged pensioner's hat and with his full name on the edge of the table on the right., Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, by Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, where may be had, price 6d. plain and 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Bachelors' Hall, Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, The Barber's Wedding, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibding and others. In Fores's exhibition may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides of illustration., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
An old pensioner in the Greenwich Hospital uniform sits on a chair as he smokes his pipe
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Three lines of verse below title: I'm a seaman and only three-score a d--d bad joke that this battered old hulk can't be fitted out for sea once more. Dibdin.
"An illustration to the song 'By Mr. Dibdin' which is engraved beneath the title. The old pensioner with a wooden leg, a pipe in his left hand, a cudgel under his left arm, stands, directed to the left, pointing across the Thames at the river front of Greenwich Hospital, but looking towards the spectator. The stern of a ship with partly furled sails is visible on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image and above verses., Probably after Robert Dighton; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.1.35., Text below title: By Mr. Dibdin., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Verse in four columns below title: 'Twas in the good ship Rober, I sail'd the world around ... Altho I'm quite disabled And lie in Greenwich tier, The King, God bless his royalty, Who saved me from the main, I'll praise with love and loyalty, But ne'er to Sea again., Numbered "601" in lower left corner., No. 40 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Title engraved below image., Artist from Sotheby's catalog., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Riou, Edward, 1762-
Subject (Topic):
Axes, Icebergs, Livestock, Rescue work, Sailors, Ships, Shipwrecks, Telescopes, Military uniforms, and British
