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1. Point Street, Portsmouth, or, The coxswain's carousal [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Nov. 1, 1826.
- Call Number:
- 825.11.01.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- Published by Sherwood & Co.
- Subject (Topic):
- Jews, Celebrations, Crowds, Couples, Flags, Intoxication, Painted wall signs, Parades & processions, Sailors, British, and Stores & shops
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Point Street, Portsmouth, or, The coxswain's carousal [graphic]
