Making a sailor an Odd Fellow!! [graphic]Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker[not before 1 December 1812]eng"Ten Odd Fellows with grotesque faces watch a sailor who stands, arms akimbo, wary and pugnacious. The chairman sits in a raised armchair, smoking and drinking, behind a small table on which are two lighted candles. On the back of his chair are three small but realistic heads, seeming to watch the proceedings. A man in a dressing-gown, introduces the sailor, doffing a night-cap: "Most worthy Chairman Mr Benjamin Block of Wapping Old Stairs - attends to be made a Member of the Ancient and honorable Society." The sailor, who wears round hat, short blue jacket, a petticoat (as in earlier prints), and buckled shoes, says: "Avast my Hearties, - before I've proceeded any further on the voyage let me know what course you are steering - if you mean to frighten a British sailor with your goggle eyes, and queer faces you are d------dly mistaken - besides it appears to me that you have got masks on which is like fighting under false colours, and that wont do for an English Jack Tar!"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched below image.Probably a second reissue, with imprint removed, of a plate first published in 1806. For earliest state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 806.12.01.01.Publication information inferred from earlier reissue with the imprint: London, Pubd. by T. Tegg, Cheapside, Decr. 1, 1812. Cf. No. 10899 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satire, v. 8.Plate numbered "109" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.