The Welch sailor's mistake, or, Tars in conversation [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[not before 30 June 1808]eng"Five sailors sit together on deck; all smoke or drink except the Welshman who sits with a hand on each knee, gazing in innocent suprise at a man who leans forward to say impressively: "And so then do you see David we sprung a leak". The Welshman answers: "Cot pless us-- and save us--did you! and a ferry coot fetchitable it is. I should have liked to have had a pit with you". They sit on chests, a cask, and a coil of rope, at the base of masts and rigging. Beside the narrator is a tobacco-jar inscribed 'Real Oronooko'. This (reversed) closely resembles 'A Leak at Sea' in British Museum Satires No. 11133."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched below image.Later state, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate.Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Publish'd June 30, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11140 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.Plate numbered "220" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 89-90.