A milling match between decks [graphic].Elmes, William, active 1797-1820, printmaker[not before 13 July 1812]eng"Two sailors, one a negro, both stripped to the waist, are seated astride a long chest, inscribed 'Arm Chest GR.', to which they are lashed, facing each other with clenched fists. Other sailors look on, amused, or fiercely intent. Behind the white pugilist stands a buxom woman clasping a bottle; she says: "Now Jack--Brail up his Peepers or Mungo --will tip you Yankey-dodle-do." A naval officer wearing a cocked hat, rests his elbow on her shoulder. All the others are rough-looking sailors and their women. In the foreground a grinning negro sailor kneels near a sailor (left) who sits on a gun smoking and drinking. The latter is the only sailor with a pigtail; it reaches below his waist. A woman looks down at the fight from a hammock. On the right two disreputable-looking women are fighting, egged on by two sailors. In the background a sailor dances with two women; he says: "I love a bit of hop--Life is ne'ar the worse for it. When in my way do drop--a Fiddl--thats your sort [cf. British Museum Satires No. 8073]." A one-legged man sitting on a gun plays a fiddle. In the foreground (right) stands a can of 'Grog.' Hammocks are slung from the roof."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched below image.Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.Later state, with date removed from end of imprint statement.Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, July 13th, 1812. Cf. No. 11981 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.Imprint statement separated into two halves, one on each side of title.Plate numbered "164" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.Also issued separately."Price one shilling coloured."--Bottom center of design.Temporary local subject terms: Hammock -- Negro -- Fiddle -- Wooden leg -- Pugilist.