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1.
The interior of a midshipman's birth [graphic]

Published / Created:
Aug. 1st, 1835.
Call Number:
835.08.01.20+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Midshipmen at table in a confined space, with a low roof, lit by a candle stuck in a bottle, which casts heavy shadows. They drink grog from tea-cups with a blue interior rim. Eight midshipmen sit at the table, bare except for a jug and bottle; of these two play cards, two sleep, one plays a fife. One of the card-players smokes a cigar and holds a handful of coins. A mishipman holds a lighted cigar to the face of his sleeping neighbour. A lieutenant drinks with the midshipmen. A ninth dances tipsily, holding cup and bottle; behind him stands a sailor playing a fiddle. A tenth, wearing a fur cap, struggles sulkily into a greatcoat before going on duty. A black boy stands against the wall grinning at the dancing midshipman. A steward (left) also stands against the wall, before recessed shelves containing a dinner-service. Against the wall hang hats, a dirk, a sextant, a sextant-case, swords, a speaking-trumpet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to Marryat from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Reissue of no. 14287 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10; originally published Aug. 12, 1821, by G. Humphrey.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Sailors, British, Interiors, Intoxication, Ships, and Servants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The interior of a midshipman's birth [graphic]

2.
Arrival at the North Pole [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
Augt. 1st, 1835.
Call Number:
835.08.01.25
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Reissue of a print published by Humphrey, 25 June 1819. An enormously tall pole projects from a rocky mound seen against a background of sea and icebergs. A sailor with a Union flag has climbed nearly to the top; at the base is a little group of sailors, waving their hats, who have just scaled the mound. One, a stout officer, is Ross; climbing up the rock is a black servant. See No. 13194, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
North Pole.
Subject (Topic):
Flags, British, Icebergs, Sailors, and Ships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Arrival at the North Pole [graphic]

3.
Dinner. Fetching lee-way, or, One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November [graphic]

Creator:
Stadler, Joseph Constantine, printmaker
Published / Created:
June 1, 1810. and [printed ca. 1825]
Call Number:
810.06.01.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Four young naval officers, two being mere boys and apparently midshipmen (though the scene is unlike the cramped squalor of the midshipmen's berth), dine at a tilting table, from which decanters, a capon, &c., have fallen to the ground. A cabin-boy struggles up the slanting desk with a ham. One of the very flimsy chairs is overturned. A gun projecting through a port-hole is marked 'Clyde'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fetching lee-way, or, One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November and One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November
Description:
Title from caption below image., Later printing. Date of printing based on watermark., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, British, and Ships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Dinner. Fetching lee-way, or, One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November [graphic]

4.
Mr. B. Masthead, or, Enjoying the fresh air for the 304th time [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
July 19th, 1821.
Call Number:
821.07.19.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The mast slants across the deisgn backed by a sail bellying in the wind. W.B. [i.e. William Blockhead] sits miserably with closed eyes astride a spar, to which he has tied his right thigh. His right arm encircles the mast, and to his wrist is tied an open book: Wilt thou upon [the] high & giddy mast scale the ship[?] bays. O yes & rock his brain. Below is a dialogue between the Lleutenant and Blockhead
Alternative Title:
Enjoying the fresh air for the 304th time
Description:
Title from text above image., Print singed using Frederick Marryat's device: an anchor slanted diagonally., Artist identified in British Museum catalogue., Two columns of dialogue below image: Dialogue - Lieut. - Pray Mr. B. Did you call the master? B. no sir I thought ..., Plate numbered in upper right corner: P. 4., and For reissue by Thomas McClean in 1835, see no. 14093 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Navy, Sea life, Reading, Sailors, British, and Ships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. B. Masthead, or, Enjoying the fresh air for the 304th time [graphic]

5.
Her Majesty Queen Caroline landing at Dover, on the 5th of June, 1820, after an absence of 5 years

Published / Created:
[not before 5 June 1820]
Call Number:
820.06.05.01+ Framed, shelved in Object Room A:A
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Queen Caroline walks down a plank balanced between a jolly boat and the shore; she is assisted by her son-in-law Prince Leopald, dressed in black. A cheering crowd stands on the beach, waving their hats in the air, behind an officer who tips his hat at the Queen. Sailors push the boat onto the shingle while a ship called "Prince Leopold" (in reference to her son-in-law) is anchored in the distance
Description:
Title etched below image., Related to George Cruikshank vignette entitled "Queen Caroline landing at Dover" on the title page for: Nightingale, Joseph. Memoirs of Queen Caroline. London: J. Robins & Co. Albion Press, 1820., and Framed to 34 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
W.B. Walker
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Belgium.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,, and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
Subject (Topic):
Divorce, Arrivals & departures, British, Sailors, Ships, Queens, and Kings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Her Majesty Queen Caroline landing at Dover, on the 5th of June, 1820, after an absence of 5 years, to demand her rights, dignities, & priveleges as Queen of England dedicated to the feelings of the British Nation, by W.B. Walker. [graphic]

6.
Portsmouth Point [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
181[4?]
Call Number:
814.00.00.02.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A wide space leads to the harbour. On one side (left) is the corner of a large old clothes shop: 'Moses Levy Money Lent', with garments, &c., hanging from it. Opposite is the old-fashioned 'Ship Tavern'. Off shore are ships in full sail, boats are making towards them. In the foreground is a bustle of departure: baggage is being carried, casks are rolled, sailors and their women embrace or fight; a one-legged sailor plays a fiddle, a child plays with dogs. At the door of the 'Ship' an officer takes leave of his family; from the bow-window above spectators lean out, an officer using a telescope."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Variant without complete publication date of no. 12408 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., and Watermark: 1800.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Crowds, Harbors, Ships, British, and Telescopes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Portsmouth Point [graphic]

7.
Cattle not insurable [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 December 1809]
Call Number:
809.12.01.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A ship's boat filled with rollicking prostitutes, cheering and lifting glasses as they are rowed towards a ship on the right extreme left, with guns projecting from port-holes; two women climb on board by a rope-ladder from a boat, watched by sailors and an officer, while from a window of the captain's cabin another woman looks out. Two other ships, one in full sail, are shown on the left
Description:
Title from item., Compare to "Exporting cattle not insurable"., 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:
Pubd. Decr. 1st 1809 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Sailors, British, and Ships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Cattle not insurable [graphic]

8.
The delegates in council, or, Beggars on horseback [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
June 9, 1797.
Call Number:
797.06.09.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Naval mutineers, seated and standing at a long table, glare ferociously at Admiral Buckner, who stands (left) calmly, hat in hand, in profile to the right at the foot of the table. The man at the head of the table, seated in a chair which is higher than the others, holds a blunderbuss and wears a hat. He must be Richard Parker, but does not resemble him. At his elbow and on the extreme right stands Thelwall filling a glass from a 'Grog' can; he says "Tell him we intend to be Masters, I'll read him a Lecture"; from his pocket hangs a paper: 'Thellwals Lecture' (see British Museum Satires No. 8685). One man only is seated on the president's left and on the near side of the table. He places a fist on a long paper headed 'Resolutions'. Under the table in the foreground, lifting up the tablecloth, five secret instigators are (left to right): Lauderdale, holding a paper: 'Letter from Sheerness to Ld L------le'; Horne Tooke, Stanhope, Grey, Fox, the most prominent, saying, "Aye, Aye, we are at the bottom of it", and Sheridan. All have satisfied smiles. Four ruffians are seated at the farther side of the table, others stand behind them; one aims a pistol over the admiral's head, one man smokes, another chews tobacco, taking a quid from his box. Weapons lie on the table. On the wall behind them are a print of Britannia head downwards, and two torn ballads: 'True Blue an old Song' and 'Hearts of Oak are our Ships Jolly Tars are our men We alway are Ready', the last word scored through. On the right the slanting window of the captain's cabin is indicated."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Beggars on horseback
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and MS. notes in pencil in an unidentified hand, describing the satire.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Buckner, Charles, approximately 1735-1811, Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl, 1764-1845, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Parker, Richard, 1767-1797., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, and Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
Subject (Topic):
Sandwich (Sloop), Nore Mutiny, 1797, Spithead Mutiny, 1797, Sailors, Admirals, Interiors, Mutinies, Firearms, Ships, and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The delegates in council, or, Beggars on horseback [graphic]

9.
Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll of Plymouth, taking leave of their lovers who are going to Botany Bay

Published / Created:
[12 May 1794]
Call Number:
794.05.12.50
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two prostitutes sit weeping on a bank (left); two heavily shackled convicts stand beside them (right). A jailer with a pistol in his belt standing behind the women points sternly to a ship in the background. On a hill in the background a body hangs from a tiny gibbet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered in lower left corner: 79., From the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
Subject (Topic):
Penal transportation, Gallows, Handguns, Prisoners, Prostitutes, Shackles, Ships, and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll of Plymouth, taking leave of their lovers who are going to Botany Bay [graphic].

10.
The sailor's return [graphic].

Published / Created:
[17 June 1793]
Call Number:
793.06.17.02+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
A sailor (just returned, his dropped knapsack in the right foreground) supports his swooning wife, overcome at seeing him return, outside a thatched cottage, while a little girl and a little boy (broom in hand) on the left hurry up to help; a pig in the foreground, two lush trees in the yard, and a ship and sea in the background; illustration to a song., Title etched below image and above verses., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered '300' in lower left of plate., Three columns of verse, each 14 lines, below title: Bleak was the morn when William left his Nancy ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 17th June 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Bags, Brooms & brushes, Children, Couples, Dwellings, Homecomings, Sailors, British, Ships, Swine, and Young adults
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The sailor's return [graphic].