Nautical experience [graphic]

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Description

Title
Nautical experience [graphic]
Creator
Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
Contributor
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[1 January 1818]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pubd. Janry. 1, 1818, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract

"A sailor heaves a donkey over the railing of a small enclosure, holding its fore-legs across his shoulders, so that the beast looks over his head. Another sailor stoops to support the ass's hindquarters on his own back. A paunchy man wearing top-boots, and with a dog, stands (left) in profile to the right., angrily facing the sailor; he says: "Who gave you authority to release that ass from the Pound". The sailor, who is smoking a pipe, answers: "Why look you master - the thing was this - we saw him aground without Victuals d'ye see and so my messmate and I agreed to Cut his Cable and set him at liberty because we have known before now what it is to be at short allowance"."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Artist from British Museum catalogue.
One of multiple reissues of a plate first published in 1803(?) by Piercy Roberts. Original imprint statement, "London, Pubd. by Roberts, Middle Row, Holborn," has been completely shaded over with etched lines in lower left corner of design. Plate was reissued by Thomas Tegg in 1812 and again in 1818 (this state), and was possibly first reissued in 1807. See British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "105" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 46 in volume 2.
Provenance
Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
Extent
1 print : sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
Collection Title
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection/Other Creator
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Etchings England London 1818
Watermarks (Paper) 1819
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Boots
Dogs
Pipes (Smoking)
Donkeys
Sailors
British
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects
Boots
Dogs
Pipes (Smoking)
Donkeys
Sailors > British
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1803
England > London > 1818
1819
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9235262
Object ID (OID)
16192607

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