Sailors conversing on horseback [graphic]Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker[ca. 1803]eng"Social satire; two sailors on horseback, one with a pipe in his hatband on a small white horse with a spotted handkerchief on a stick attached to its bridle, the other smoking a pipe on a large brown horse; they ask each other how their journeys on their horses have been, using language associated with ships, for example: "endeavouring to double the point at Mile-end she fell foul of a dray, and smack she lay me keel upermost in a stinking ditch ... I hoisted my pocket handkerchief on her topmast as a sign of distress, which was seen by some comrades at anchor in the moorings. ..."."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.711.For another print by Roberts dealing with sailors during the Peace of Amiens, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1990,1109.69.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.