Sailors carouse in a drunken orgy between decks; hammocks are slung from the roof and drunken sailors vomit over the sides into the crowd. Musicians play fiddles and drums. Men and women drink and dance. A negro fiddles; a Jew sits on the ground ready to receive the watch which a woman steals from a sailor as she sits stirring a bowl on a box labeled "T. Ockham'. A marine kicks over a bucket labeled with the ships name as he spills the contents of his mug onto a barefoot boy who in turn pours the contents of his kettle onto a dog. To the left is a large keg of rum. The scene is watched by smiling officers (left), among whom is Lord Cochrane. This wartime scene is called to mind by the sight of the frigate 'Peranga' lying off Spithead. See British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 14952 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 2, page 214.
Publisher:
Sherwood Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of, 1775-1860
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Jews, Boys, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Fighting, Military officers, British, Musicians, Robberies, Sailors, and Vomiting
Title devised by cataloger., Frontispiece to: Hanway, J. Three letters on the subject of the Marine Society. London : Printed in the year 1758., "See Sheila O'Connell, 'London 1753', BM 2003, cat.3.26. The charitable Marine Society was founded in 1756 by Jonas Hanway, and this served as frontispiece to a pamphlet seeking support for it"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1872,1012.5145., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 27.1 x 20.4 cm., and Mounted after page 474 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Marine Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Organizations, Conference rooms, Beggars, and Sailors
"Satirical ballad on the unwillingness of the British government to go to war with Spain with a woodcut illustration derived from British Museum Satires No. 2355 showing Robert Walpole holding the tail of the British Lion which holds a staff topped by a crown. The lion is apparently attempting to lunge at a Spaniard holding a whip who has harnessed three English sailors to a cart."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Negotiators, or, Don Diego brought to reason and Don Diego brought to reason
Description:
Title and publication information from British Museum catalogue., Mounted on leaf 73. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
R. Thompson
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757
Subject (Topic):
Whips, Carts & wagons, Lions, Sailors, and Staffs (Sticks)
A view of wartime merriment: A procession of sailors and their women, escorted by fiddlers, passes a background of shops towards a gateway across the end of the street (left). The purveyor of the jollification, a sailor who has inherited money, sits astride a cask of 'real Jamaica' supported on poles carried by sailors, who wave hat and tankard towards the crowded first-floor windows. Men and women dance along the street. There are many incidents. A Jew, talking to another Jew outside a shop placarded 'Moses Slop-Shop', has his hat twitched off by the cane of a sailor who leans from above the doorway. The sailors carry an Ensign flag and a flag inscribed 'Leander', and are making for the Point. See British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Coxswain's carousal
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15212 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 2, Page 218.
Set of 290 black-and-white prints of Rockwell Kent's illustrations and decorations for the 1930 Lakeside edition of Moby Dick. The prints are housed in 148 mats, with each mat holding one to four prints, and divided into three volumes that correspond to the published Lakeside edition. The mats for each volume are housed in a custom case with paper spine and cover labels featuring Kent's illustrations. Volume 1 contains mats 1-49 (95 prints) and the inventory of illustrations; volume 2 contains mats 50-94 (89 prints); and volume 3 contains mats 95-148 (106 prints).
Alternative Title:
Moby Dick
Description:
BEIN 2023 Folio 19: From the library of William S. Reese. Twenty-six sheets bear the Strathmore drawing board trademark stamp. Accompanied by manuscript inventory of illustrations in an unidentified hand (11 pages). Each mat is numbered in pencil with a number corresponding to this inventory. The final 9 illustrations (mats 145-148) likely do not appear in the published Lakeside edition. and Title devised by cataloger.
Volume 2, page 43. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group of sailors at rest, one leaning against a boat at left with a tankard in his hand, opposite him three of his companions are grouped around a barrel while another is in an embrace with a woman on a sack in the foreground, a figure behind him looking solemnly out to the front, the masts of a ship over a wall behind, another figure beyond tugging a rope; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From a sketch taken at Portsmouth by W.H. Bunbury Esqr
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 43 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 24th, 1785, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
Two individuals present a horse with a very long caricatured torso to a frowning sailor
Alternative Title:
Sailor and th long-backed horse and Long-backed horse
Description:
Title and date based on Laurie & Whittle published etching after this drawing., Artist suggested by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
A sailor, holding a bowl of water, sits on a bucking horse. The townspeople seem to mock the sailor
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing: Published by Carington Bowles, 20 May 1782., Robert Dighton, English draughtsman, 1752-1814., and For further information, consult library staff.
