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1. Black-Dick turn'd taylor [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 February 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.02.04.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Lord Howe (left) sits cross-legged on a tailor's shop-board working at a naval coat which lies across his knees. He holds up a threaded needle in his right hand; in his left are shears with which he is about to cut the thread. He says, "I have now finish'd my Seven Years Plan of the N-v-l Uniform; next the Marines must be Blue, faced with White, & White Buttons. I shan't let the Guardships cruize as formerly, a bad plan, give me young Officers that know little, then I may shew my skill - The word Merit should be expung'd from the Dictionary. Next Year I must set a few more of the old Ninety Two's aside, & have smart young Admirals. I'll have a general reform soon." Beside him is a tailor's goose, &c. Behind him (right) five naval coats in course of completion hang from a row of pegs, two have elaborately wide cuffs, one of which is decorated with an anchor. Beneath the board on which Howe sits are demons from whose operations smoke rises to surround him. Two grotesque nude creatures (left), one very thin, the other obese, are on the top of a circular platform which rests on a mast flying an ensign. They are cooking a goose, a cabbage, and a cucumber, all emblems of the tailor, cf. BMSat 5805, &c. The place where the 'cabbage' (pilfered cloth) was kept was called Hell. Grose, 'Dict. Vulgar Tongue', 1796. Next them a large devil with a gridiron under his arm stretches out his talons, saying, "And I'll have a general Reform soon as I shall get you before you are aware of it. I've ting'd your Heart so may safely leave you to go on."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Black-Dick turned taylor and Black-Dick turned tailor
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1788, by G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre
- Subject (Name):
- Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799 and Great Britain. Royal Navy
- Subject (Topic):
- Promotions, Demons, Tailor shops, and Tailoring
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Black-Dick turn'd taylor [graphic].
2. Documents concerning ship captains and shipping, 1762-circa 1809
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 155
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 30
- Abstract:
- Manuscript documents and letters, illustrating the daily life and responsibilities of sea captains in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The collection includes documents relating to Captain Robert Poultney in Jamaica and letters on personal and naval matters addressed to Captain John Wainwright. Also included are descriptions of coastal areas and navigation hazzards, documents relating to obtaining supplies, a ship's newsletter, and a colored map ("Rochfort et les Environs").
- Description:
- Robert Poultney was the captain of the ship Loretta in Jamaica in 1762-1764., John Wainwright of the Royal Navy served in the East Indies and the Mediterranean, fought throughout the Napoleonic Wars, and is remembered for the destruction of the pirate town Ras-al-Kayma while captain of the ship Chiffonne., and In English, with one letter in French.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Mediterranean Region and Brittany (France)
- Subject (Name):
- Poultney, Robert., Wainwright, John, Captain., Chiffonne (Ship), Great Britain. Royal Navy, and Loretta (Ship)
- Subject (Topic):
- Officers, Sea life, Aids to navigation, Coasts, Navigation, Seafaring life, Ship captains, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Documents concerning ship captains and shipping, 1762-circa 1809
3. Mother Carey's chickens [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [November 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.11.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A stout and comely lady stands at the door of an ornamentally rustic cottage, shaking a cloth from which tiny officers leap out, holding money-bags. The cloth is inscribed in large letters 'Pin Money instead of Allowance'. She says: "This is a profitable Plan of his and pays me a Devilish deal better than he can, besides the Patronage!!" Five elderly officers of normal size (right) watch their pigmy rivals with consternation. One looks through his glass, saying, "To waste ones health in unwholesome Climates an then fail of promotion because we cannot fee ****** or Army Agents Agents.!!" Another says: "Mother Careys Chickens by - then we shall have a storm indeed!" A third exclaims: "What to spend our lives in the service of our Country, and to be thus degraded by a parcel of Boys!!" He has a wooden leg and a patch over one eye. Another had lost his right arm, and the group seem hardly fit for active service. The 'boys' wear fashionable crescent-shaped cocked hats with plumes, the others old-fashioned hats with cockade, loop, and button. Over the door is inscribed in large letters '... mus Cottage'. It has the ornamental Gothic windows with leaded panes and thatched roof of fashionable rusticity. Beside it is a weeping willow. Below the title: 'NB these Birds have lately been seen hovering about the Horse Guards'. Below the design: 'a Storm Finch, or stormy petterel (the Mother Careys Chickens of the Sailors). Procellaria Pelagica of Linnaeus. is seldom or never seen but in the great Ocean, and then when observed flying near a Ship, is the sure prognostication of a Storm, the analagy [sic] of effect has induced modern Naturalists to class these, with the Pelagica of Linnaeus, tho differing in plumage'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Imprint statement etched within upper portion of image., and Watermark: Ruse & Turners. Small tears along the right edge.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 1808 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827., Great Britain. Army, and Great Britain. Royal Navy
- Subject (Topic):
- Officers, Promotions, Recruiting, enlistment, etc, Military officers, British, Amputees, Dwellings, Doors & doorways, Eye patches, Mistresses, Peg legs, and Uniforms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mother Carey's chickens [graphic].
4. The last jig, or Adieu to Old England [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Published / Created:
- [20 January 1818]
- Call Number:
- 818.01.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in a tavern cellar, with a young woman, gaily dressed, dancing a jig with a man wearing an apron; at left, a sailor playing the violin, at right, a sailor sitting on steps and leaning forward, smoking, resting his arms on a barrel, another beside him holding a bowl, a young woman standing behind them with a hand on the shoulder of each; behind, three amorous couples, including a sailor sitting on another barrel
- Alternative Title:
- Adieu to Old England
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Image size including ruled lines: 245 x 345 mm., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd January 20th, 1818 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Royal Navy
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Caricatures and cartoons, Jig (Dance), Couples, Dance, Kissing, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The last jig, or Adieu to Old England [graphic]
5. The last jig, or, Adieu to Old England [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 January 1818] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 43. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in a tavern cellar, with a young woman, gaily dressed, dancing a jig with a man wearing an apron; at left, a sailor playing the violin, at right, a sailor sitting on steps and leaning forward, smoking, resting his arms on a barrel, another beside him holding a bowl, a young woman standing behind them with a hand on the shoulder of each; behind, three amorous couples, including a sailor sitting on another barrel
- Alternative Title:
- Adieu to Old England
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.808., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 363., and On leaf 43 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd January 20th, 1818, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Royal Navy
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Jig (Dance), Couples, Dance, Kissing, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The last jig, or, Adieu to Old England [graphic]
6. To Mariot Arbuthnot Esqr., Commander of His Majesty's Ship of War Orford, at the reduction of the Havannah in the year 1762, this perspective view of landing the cannon, bombs, provisions, and water, for the army, June 30th between 6 and 7, in the evening the Orford making signals to the Commodore; with the Dragon, Cambridge, & Marlboroough, lying with their heads to the sea, for the Sterling Castle, to get to the westward of them : is most humbly inscribed by one of his lieutenants ... P.O.R. Sbridge / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mason, James, approximately 1723-1805, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1762]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 762.00.00.54+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of Havana harbor, with the HMS Orford at anchor, centre, other warships lying heads to sea; cannon and provisions being manhandled ashore. The beach is filled with troops and tents
- Alternative Title:
- Perspective view of landing the cannon, bombs, provisions, and water, for the army, June 30th between 6 and 7, in the evening ...
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Engraved after a painting by Serres based on a drawing made on the spot by Philip Orsbridge, whose name is engraved here "P.O.R. Sbridge"., Plate also issued with eleven other plates and four pages of text as part of: Britannia's triumph in the year 1762 : being a series of capital prints representing the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army employed in the attack and conquest of the Havannah, under the brave Admiral Pocock, Lord Albemarle, etc., etc. ... London : J. Bowles, 1766., and "Plate 7"--Lower right corner.
- Publisher:
- J. Bowles?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Cuba. and Havana (Cuba)
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Royal Navy
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Campaigns, Harbors, Naval warfare, Warships, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > To Mariot Arbuthnot Esqr., Commander of His Majesty's Ship of War Orford, at the reduction of the Havannah in the year 1762, this perspective view of landing the cannon, bombs, provisions, and water, for the army, June 30th between 6 and 7, in the evening the Orford making signals to the Commodore; with the Dragon, Cambridge, & Marlboroough, lying with their heads to the sea, for the Sterling Castle, to get to the westward of them : is most humbly inscribed by one of his lieutenants ... P.O.R. Sbridge / [graphic]
7. [Logbook of the HMS Leviathan]
- Creator:
- Duckworth, John Thomas, Sir
- Published / Created:
- 1799-1800
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc164
- Image Count:
- 6
- Abstract:
- Holograph journal of the ship Leviathan, flagship of Admiral Duckworths command group in the Mediterranean and off Spain from May 1799 to May 1800. The logbook tracks weather conditions, routine activities on all of the ships under his command and signal
- Description:
- Binding: Contemporary marbled wrappers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --History --1789-1820
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Royal Navy
- Subject (Topic):
- Seafaring life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Logbook of the HMS Leviathan]
