Sea stores [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[not before 25 March 1812]eng"A boyish midshipman (right), wearing uniform with cocked hat, fashionable neck-cloth, and tight white trousers, bargains at the waterside with two prostitutes. He puts his arm round a comely young woman, feeling in his pocket; she extends her hand for payment. Beside her (left) is a hideous negress smoking a pipe. Behind, at the foot of a ladder, crouches a shapeless elderly woman. The ladder leads to a coastal fortification, where look-out men are lounging and smoking near a gun-embrasure. A man ascends the ladder with a basket on his head. Behind (right) is the sea with a man-of-war; by the shore a ship's boat with three sailors waits for the midshipman."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched below image.Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate.Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Publish'd March 25th, 1812, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf No. 11960 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.Plate numbered "140" 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, page 226.