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- Creator:
- Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1800 and 1807?]
- Call Number:
- 800.00.00.185+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A judge sits in a chair (left) looking at sailor who stands hat in hand before him. He says, "Are you certain, in respect to your being sober at the time the circumstance happened." The sailor with caricatured features and warts on his face, replies: "Sober. Come I like that, may I never again weigh anchor if I would not call him a lubber be he who he would, that would say I was drunk, please your grave and reverend worship. I had only shipp'd in eight grogs and a gill not enough to make a lawyer merry, in short your honor, I'll be d-nd if I was not as sober as a judge."
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.673., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermarked "Ivy Mill 1820".
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Roberts, Middle-Row, Holborn
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Drunkenness (Crime), Law and legislation, Judges, Sailors, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The sailor and the judge [graphic]