"Three sailors sitting on trunks on board a ship, grimacing as they read papers. At centre one points to his paper, saying, 'Did you ever hear such palaver Jack - Just before an Action'; his paper is inscribed, 'nothing opposes the individual esteem entertaind for your excellency by your faithfull servant / J Moore / Cadiz'. At left, a sailor reads a paper inscribed, 'I am your Excellrncys most Humble Servant / Rossily'; his trunk is lettered 'Will bo[...]'. At right the third says, 'Be quiet you lubbers, you dont know how to be polite - one of the Mounseers has ax'd me a little time, before I blow him up, and see what a civil letter I have sent him.'; his trunk is lettered 'Junk' and his paper, 'Mounseer / I had the honor of your this morning, and if you don't surrender by six in the evening, I'll be d-d if I dont blow you up / yours / to command / Jack Junk'. On the floor in the foreground, a tankard of 'Grog', a pipe and broadsides, one of which is headed 'True courage'; a cannon behind at left. Reissue by Fores of a print originally published c. July 1808."--British Museum online catalogue and "In May-July 1808, at the beginning of the Peninsular war, the British fleet helped to defend the Spanish in Cádiz from the French fleet led by Rosily; the British officer John Moore left England for Portugal in July 1808. The imprint indicates a reissue, giving the address line used by Fores in 1818-19."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
British sailors perusing the dispatches from Cadiz
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.697., 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:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Moore, John, Sir, 1761-1809. and Rosily-Mesros, François de, 1748-1832.
Subject (Topic):
Peninsular War, 1807-1814, Sailors, British, Decks (Ships), Luggage, Newspapers, Cannons, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
A scene on a street: a sailor with a bag beside him offers to sell a young man a new handkerchief as his accomplice steals his hankerchief from his back pocket
Description:
Title from text below image., Title continues: ... but all our Indy hankerchers is smuggled or we could not offer em at the price, fact I do assure you., and Date of publication from note in local card catalog record: 1860?, dated by costume.
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of text below image: Why damme! Messmate you're done up ..., Plate numbered '173' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Naval uniforms: sailors' uniforms -- Beer barrels -- Dishes: tankards -- Drunkenness.
Publisher:
Published 24th Octr., 1796, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, British, Military uniforms, Barrels, Beer, Drinking vessels, Pipes (Smoking), Smoking, and Intoxication
A view of wartime merriment: A procession of sailors and their women, escorted by fiddlers, passes a background of shops towards a gateway across the end of the street (left). The purveyor of the jollification, a sailor who has inherited money, sits astride a cask of 'real Jamaica' supported on poles carried by sailors, who wave hat and tankard towards the crowded first-floor windows. Men and women dance along the street. There are many incidents. A Jew, talking to another Jew outside a shop placarded 'Moses Slop-Shop', has his hat twitched off by the cane of a sailor who leans from above the doorway. The sailors carry an Ensign flag and a flag inscribed 'Leander, and are making for the Point
Alternative Title:
Coxswain's carousal
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Year of publication altered. Ms. '6' added over last digit of 1825.
"One of a set of four: see British Museum Satires No. 7176. France, as an elderly and ugly petit-maître (right), his hat under his arm, holds out obsequiously an empty purse and a snuff-box towards Holland, a stout peasant who kneels at his feet, weeping and clasping his hands in supplication. Behind Holland stand a Prussian soldier, threatening him with his bayonet, and England, a sailor who clenches his fists. In the background (right) is a windmill. Beneath the design is engraved: 'Prussian: Orange for ever! and respect to the Ladies. English: Confess yourself a French Dog! Dutch: Help me out Monsieur! you brought me in. Frenchm: Me beg to be excused. Bygar me have nothing to give; & me remember the Duke of Bronsvic, Pitt, Rosbac & Minden'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Dutch and United Provinces -- Military uniform: Prussian soldier -- Military uniform: British sailor -- Musket with bayonet., DeGrey's ms. note on verso., and Watermark: C Patch on the right side of sheet; Strasburg lily on the left.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 21st, 1787 by T. Harmar, No. 164 (opposite Bond Street) Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Sailors, British, Military uniforms, Prussian, Rifles, and Bayonets
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six stanzas of a ballad below title: Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Ballads: Poor Tom Bowling -- Maps -- Coffins -- Female costume: mourning outfit -- Interior of a cottage.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th Decr. 1791 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[3 November1794]
Call Number:
Drawer 794.11.03.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Design consists of twenty-two figures in two rows, each with text etched above., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge and to plate mark on other edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1794 -- Female costume, 1794 -- Conventions -- Reference to guillotine -- Allusion to French Revolution -- Reference to Jacobins -- Male costume: Reference to sans-culottes -- Black females., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
Leaf 5. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Admiral Rodney is depicted receiving the submission of the defeated De Grasse after the Battle of the Saints, as English sailors bring ashore the spoils of war, and chagrined politicians Fox, Keppel, and the Duke of Richmond look on from the left, with Sandwich and North behind them. Contrasts the new ministry's hostility to the popular Rodney with the rewarding of the incompetent Keppel (Admiral "Lee-shore.").
Alternative Title:
Admiral lee-shore in the dumps
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 5992 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], "Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. 3"--On left above design., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 36., and On leaf 5 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 31st, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street, London [i.e. Field & Tuer] and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788, Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Subject (Topic):
Admirals, French, British, Sailors, and Clothing & dress
Admiral Rodney is depicted receiving the submission of the defeated De Grasse after the Battle of the Saints, as English sailors bring ashore the spoils of war, and chagrined politicians Fox, Keppel, and the Duke of Richmond look on from the left, with Sandwich and North behind them. Contrasts the new ministry's hostility to the popular Rodney with the rewarding of the incompetent Keppel (Admiral "Lee-shore.").
Alternative Title:
Admiral lee-shore in the dumps
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and On left above design: Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. 3.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 31st, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788, Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, History, Naval, Admirals, French, British, Sailors, and Clothing & dress