Sailors eating pork [graphic]Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker[not before January 1807]eng"Two sailors face each other at a small table, on which is a centre-dish of pork bristling like a porcupine. Behind the table stands the hostess looking warily at one sailor (right); she says: "Never was better Pork believe me Gentlemen - I powdered it with my own Hands." He answers, scowling: "Did you so - then I'll tell you what Mistress, while your hand was in, I wish you had Shaved it also." The other (left), spiking a bristling chunk of meat on his knife, says: "Why Jack - may I never cast Anchor again, if there ant bristles in this Pork as thick as Cables." Beside him is a dog. Both sailors wear striped trousers with buckled shoes. A punch-bowl is on a side-table, and the print of a ship on the wall indicates a sailor's house of call."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched below image.Later reissue by Tegg of a plate originally published ca. 1803 by Piercy Roberts. Roberts's imprint in lower right corner of design is totally obscured by etched lines; Tegg's imprint was added to the left of Roberts's obscured imprint for the initial reissue but was burnished from the plate for this later reissue. See British Museum online catalogue.Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, Janry. 1807. Cf. No. 10895 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.Plate numbered "248" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.