Jack, hove down with a grog blossom fever / [graphic]Elmes, William, active 1797-1820, printmaker[not before 12 August 1811]eng"A sailor with a hideously carbuncled face lies in a hammock wearing a striped shirt and night-cap. Beside him is his sea-chest, the open lid inscribed 'Sea Stock', from which he has taken a bottle of 'Grogg'. He shakes his fist at an old-fashioned doctor, lean and grotesque (left), who stoops towards him proferring a box of 'Pills' and holding a long bottle labelled 'A Sweat'. Under the doctor's arm is a gold-headed cane, and from his coat-pocket project a 'Clyster' [pipe] which is exploding, and a bottle of 'Jollop'; beside him are a 'Pestel' and 'Mortar'. He says: "hold--I must stop Your Grog Jack--it excites those impulces, and concussions of the Thorax, which acorn pany Sternutation by which means you are in a sort of a kind of a Situation--- that Your head must be--shaved--I shall take from you only--20os of Blood-- then swallow this Draught and Box of Pills, and I shall administer to you a Clyster." Jack answers angrily: "Stop my Grog.--Belay there Doctor--Shiver my timbers but your lingo bothers me--You May batter my Hull as long as you like, but I'll be d--'nd if ever You board me with your Glyster pipe." In his chest are bottles inscribed 'Brandy', 'Rum', and 'Gin', a large twist of 'Pig tail' [tobacco], a 'True Love Token', and a miniature (cf. British Museum Satires No. 10894). He is covered with a gaily patterned coverlet inscribed 'P R'. His jacket and breeches are on the deck beside him, and close by (left) are a cannon and cannon-balls."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Print signed with pseudonym "XYZ", with the letter "Z" etched backwards. Printmaker identified as William Elmes in the British Museum catalogue.Reissue, with date removed from imprint statement.Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Augt. 12, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, opposite Bow Church, London. See British Museum catalogue.Plate numbered "78" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.Also issued separately.Temporary local subject terms: Carbuncle -- Thorax -- Hammock -- Eyeglasses.1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 34 cm.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate with loss of plate number from upper right, and sheet mutilated on bottom edge with partial loss of title. Pencil annotations complete lost portion of title.Mounted to 27 x 38 cm. On back of mount, a possible proof state in sepia stipple by C.M. Metz (delineavit) and J. Barrow (sculp.) labelled "Plate II."