The merry ships crew, or, Nautical philosophers [graphic]Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker[approximately 1818]eng"A naval officer and a lady holding up a parasol walk arm-in-arm along the fortified quay of a naval port. He is accosted by a petty officer, hat in hand, and asks: "Well Mate! just come on shore? how did you leave the ships crew?" The mate: "Why Captain, I have left them all to a man the merriest fellows in the world--I flogged seventeen of them as your Honor commanded, and they are happy it is over; and the rest are happy because they have escaped." Behind, a sentry stands at attention. On the right a sailor wearing a top-hat makes a boat fast to the quay."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.Two lines of quoted text following title: "For all the happiness mankind can gain, "is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain. Dryden.Plate numbered "315" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.Also issued separately.1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.Leaf 13 in volume 5.