In the hull of a ship, sea-sick men lay in their bunks, some vomiting over the side; an overturned chamber pot sits in the middle of the floor. One hardy-looking man heads up the ladder with a simple sextant in his arm. Sea chests are seen below the bunks and swords are hung on the walls
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Variant lacking imprint statement. Cf. No. 12720 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Chamber pots, Motion sickness, Ships, and Vomiting
Leaf 77. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Repos a l'allemande
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Restrike; plate originally issued no earlier than 1800, which is the publication year for the print by Gillray of which this is a reversed copy. Cf. No. 9510 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 77 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, German, Beds, Pipes (Smoking), Daggers & swords, Hats, Portraits, and Chamber pots
In the foreground, the veterans with wooden legs and on crutches try to get away from the crumbling facade of the Chelsea Hospital. Several of them lie on the ground crushed by the fallen columns. In the background, a group of women, outraged by the proposal to abolish the Chelsea Hospital and to tax employers of maid servants, attacks with brooms and a slop jar the proposal's author, Sir Cecil Wray
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 32 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 30th, 1784, by Mrs. Dacheray, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805 and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Disabled veterans, Peg legs, Servants, Chamber pots, and Building failures
