"A midshipman, no longer young, in shirtsleeves, sits on a padlocked chest blacking a boot. He looks straight before him with a tragic expression. He wears his regulation top-hat, blue trousers, neatly patched, and waistcoat over a white shirt, and sits on the midshipman's coat which he has taken off. On the ground at his feet are a tray for blacking-brushes, a pot labelled Warrens Blacking 30 Strand, a broken dirk, top-boots, and shoes. Behind are houses on Tower Hill, with the moat. Behind (left) is an alehouse, with a pair of trousers hanging as a sign from a projecting flagstaff. Inset in the title is a group of sextant, telescope, a book: . . . ton More, &c, below the pawnbroker's sign of three balls."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Midshipman on half pay
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from text on earlier state: Engd. & pubd. ... by C. Hunt ..., Reissue, with new imprint statement, of a print published 1 June 1825 by Charles Hunt. Cf. No. 14921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Tower Hill (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Sailors, British, Military officers, Boots, Brooms & brushes, Shoe shining, and Shoe polishes
Title from item., "From an original picture painted by Mr. John Collett."--Below title., and Cf. No. 4258 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Publisher:
Printed for Rob. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Military uniforms, British, Peg legs, Police, Prostitutes, Riots, Sailors, and Taverns (Inns)
A sailor grasps the ears of his horse as he is hurled forward over its neck, just as they reach the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean. In the distance is a ship at full mast. Behind them on a cliff is a castle (Dover Castle?).
Alternative Title:
Ttrip to sea
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., No. 7 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
"A number of persons take shelter under the enormous hat-brim of a lady who screams, clasping her hands in alarm. An infant chimney-sweep or 'climbing boy' has climbed up her petticoats and sits astride on their lateral projection. A larger chimney-sweep is about to climb up, putting one foot on his sack of soot. A cloaked market-woman, smoking a pipe, stands under the shelter, as does a man in the dress of a naval officer. A sailor, wearing trousers, his arms folded, appears to be dancing a hornpipe under the shelter of the hat. In the background (right) a lady walks (right to left) holding up a small umbrella which shelters only a minute part of her enormous hat which extends far beyond her projecting breast and petticoats. In the foreground chickens run towards a hen for shelter. A house (left) and a high wall behind which is a tree (right) complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Any port in a storm
Description:
Title from item., On verso, in pencil: questionable attribution to Kingsbury., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pub'd by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Chickens, Chimney sweeps, Clothing & dress, Hats, Sailors, British, Street vendors, Umbrellas, and Uniforms
The Duke of Clarence dressed as a rough sailor, stands full-face with folded arms (three-quarter length view only), looking to the right with a belligerent stare. He wears a shapeless hat, a naval coat, striped trousers, a handkerchief knotted round his neck. Etched below the image: "Damn all Bond St Sailors I say, a parcel of smell smocks! they'd sooner creep into a Jordan than face the French! dam me!"
Description:
Title etched below image., Enlarged copy of Naval eloquence, by the same printmaker., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 28th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816. and William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
"Reissue of a print published by Humphrey, 25 June 1819. An enormously tall pole projects from a rocky mound seen against a background of sea and icebergs. A sailor with a Union flag has climbed nearly to the top; at the base is a little group of sailors, waving their hats, who have just scaled the mound. One, a stout officer, is Ross; climbing up the rock is a black servant. See No. 13194, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
"Heading to engraved verses: 'Sung with Unbounded Applause by Mr Miller, at the royal Circus'. A handsome young sailor, wearing long trousers and a striped jersey, stands full face, cudgel under the r. holding up his hat. He is framed in trees; behind is the river, with boats and wherries, and, across the water, the river-front of Greenwich Hospital. He relates how he ran away to sea, sailed 'the world around' with Nelson, was taken prisoner, and escaped from a Spanish prison. The verses end: 'I've run many risks on ocean and on shore, But always like a Briton, got the day, And fighting in old England's cause, will run as many more But let me face ten thousand foes, will never run away.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '443' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed either by Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., One line of text directly below title: Sung with unbounded applause by Mr. Miller, at the Royal Circus., and Four numbered verses of a song arranged in two columns above imprint line: Bound prentice to a water-man, learnt a bit to row ...
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 8, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A ship's boat filled with rollicking prostitutes, cheering and lifting glasses as they are rowed towards a ship on the right extreme left, with guns projecting from port-holes; two women climb on board by a rope-ladder from a boat, watched by sailors and an officer, while from a window of the captain's cabin another woman looks out. Two other ships, one in full sail, are shown on the left
Description:
Title from item., Compare to "Exporting cattle not insurable"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st 1809 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Admiral de Grasse stands up to his waist in a large barrel, saying "I shall never more love the Englishmen's sugar and gunpowder." On the left stands an English naval officer with cutlass in hand, and on the right an English sailor. Refers to De Grasse's defeat by Rodney when the French attempted to raid Jamaica in 1782
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Sold by E. Rich, at the little Print Shop opposite Anderton's Coffee House, Fleet Street and Pubd. by J. Barrow
Subject (Name):
Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788
Subject (Topic):
Barrels, Admirals, French, Military officers, British, Sailors, and Military uniforms
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "324" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 24 in volume 5.