"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 sail...
"Heading to engraved verses: 'Sung with Unbounded Applause by Mr Miller, at the royal Circus'. A handsome young sailor, wearing long trousers and a striped jersey, stands full face, cudgel under the r. holding up his hat. He is framed in trees; behind...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 8, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A sailor on shore, holding a bottle, with a well-dressed young prostitute on each arm, the one on his [left] arm carries a cauliflower while the other holds up her dress; a boat moored against the quay in the [left] foreground, ships at sea and a for...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, Social life and customs, Courtesans, British, and Piers & wharves
Cartes-de-visite photographs created primarily by photographers in San Francisco and northern California, ca. 1855-1895. Images consist chiefly of portraits depicting children, women, and men, in single, couple, and group sittings. Individuals in the...
Description:
Digital version available;
Subject (Geographic):
California. and California
Subject (Name):
Abell, Frank George, Jr., 1844-1910., Bailey, A. P., Baldwin, John E. D., Bayley, Wilbur Fisk., Bluett, William H., Bradley, Henry William, 1813-1891., Brown, T. A., photographer., Bryan, John M., Chalmers, James Calder, Jr., Clayton, James Atkins, 1831-1896., Cobb, David., Coombs, Frederick, 1803-1874., Coughlan, Tom., Crawford, Ellison Lassell, 1833-1895., Currier, Amos., Denier, Tony, 1839?-1917., Dunham, Allen Murray, ca. 1834-ca. 1924., Dunham, Murry., Edouart, Alexander, 1818-1892., Fardon, George Robinson, 1807-1886., Flaglor, Amasa Plummer, 1848-1918., Foss, Oscar., Frye, H. H., Gaines, Flave H., Godeus, John D., Halsey, Henry H., Halsey, Isaac Sherwood, 1828-1895., Hamilton, Charles F., Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915., Jenkins, Clara., Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875., Johnston, Amasa Park, ca. 1837-1931., Kellogg, Andrew J., Kingsley, John Lucas, ca. 1939-1869., Kip, William Ingraham, 1811-1893., Kruse, Henry., Kusel, Edward Abraham., Lainer, Charles., Lathrop, Frank Henry., Lawrence, George S., Lichau, Henrietta., Lowe, Joseph P., Mains, James Riley., Marston, Charles Albert., Mautz, Carl., Morse, George Daniels., Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904., Noble, Skelton Sanford., Olanie, Eugenie., Prindle, Edward H., Rixford, Emmett H., Ross, George, 1832-1893., Rulofson, William Herman, 1826-1878., Sanders, Stephen Poole., Selleck, Silas Wright, ca. 1828-1885., Shew, Jacob, 1826-1879., Shew, William J., 1820-1903., Silva, Joseph Trinidad., Smith, James Girard, 1836-, Spooner, John Pitcher, 1845-1917., Stevens, B. F., Stinson, Lewis Jackson., Stone, George F., Taber, I. W. 1830-1912. (Isaiah West),, Todd, John A., 1827-1899., Valleau, George W., Vaughn, Hector William., Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916., Welsh, John Oliver, ca. 1840-ca. 1913., Winberg, John A., Winter, Daniel., Winter, Robert, ca. 1821-1893., Wise, James H., 1812-, Wolfe, Samuel Augustus., Yong, Lai., Abell & Welsh., Bayley & Winter., Bluett & Fardon., Bradley & Rulofson., Brown & Otto., City Mart Photographic Gallery., Currier & Winter., Dunham & Lathrop., Edouart & Cobb., Foss & Halsey., Freemasons, Hamilton & Kellogg., Hoebel & Luther., Houston's Excelsior Gallery., I. W. Taber & Company., Mains & Von Hasseln., Peoples Art Gallery., and Sanders & Stinson.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Asian Americans, Photographers, Circus performers, Dolls, Dwarfs (Persons), Giants (Folklore), Miners, Musicians, Sailors, Soldiers, and Tall people
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...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st 1809 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Admiral de Grasse stands up to his waist in a large barrel, saying "I shall never more love the Englishmen's sugar and gunpowder." On the left stands an English naval officer with cutlass in hand, and on the right an English sailor. Refers to De Grass...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Sold by E. Rich, at the little Print Shop opposite Anderton's Coffee House, Fleet Street and Pubd. by J. Barrow
Subject (Name):
Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788
Subject (Topic):
Barrels, Admirals, French, Military officers, British, Sailors, and Military uniforms
"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 s...
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
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A procession of characters riding fantastic velocipedes (see British Museum Satires No. 13399), in profile to the right, each an isolated figure, arranged in two rows divided by a horizontal line. Each machine is an appropriate object mounted on two ...
Alternative Title:
Everyone his hobby
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Ap. 24th, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Jews, Bicycles & tricycles, City council members, Ethnic stereotypes, Hobbyists, Military uniforms, British, Physicians, Dandies, and Sailors
A very tall thin gentleman with elongated wig and dour expression sits facing left on a block labelled "Stool of repentance" as he pulls a frog apart by its legs. Strapped to him by a belt around the waist is an old long-haired and bearded man, with b...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Spain, France., France, Spain., and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
National characteristics, French, National characteristics, Spanish, Foreign relations, and Sailors
A well-dressed sailor with a tricorne hat upon his head sits grinning at a table, looking directly at the viewer. He holds in his left had a ladle which is emersed in a full bowl. In his right he holds a glass
Description:
Title from the first of twelve lines of verse in three columns, below image: Fill up the mighty sparkling bowl that I a true and loyal soul may drink & sing without controul to support my pleasure ...
Publisher:
Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, J. Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Glassware, Sailors, and British
A sailor smiling at the viewer is counting with pleasure the coins he drops from one hand to another. To the left, a barmaid is stirring a drink in a punch bowl while looking with at him with expectation
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
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 a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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
"Two burly fierce-looking sailors drink together; each sits on an inverted tub, smoking a pipe, a paper of tobacco on the plain round table between them. One (l.) says: "Why Jack! you was so long in a French Prison, I suppose you larnt to patter their...
"A bear (right), wearing Cossack trousers and an imperial crown surmounted by a double-headed eagle, runs off to the right. He carries a piece of mountainous country inscribed Greece on which kneels a tiny Greek in profile to the left, exclaiming Save...
Alternative Title:
Imperial bears grease or a peep into futurity
Description:
Title from caption below image; the letters "a" and "s" in the word "grease" are crossed out and the letters "e" and "c" etched above to form the word "Greece."
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Charles X, King of France, 1757-1836
Subject (Topic):
Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829, Bears, Crowns, Sailors, British, National emblems, Russian, and Turkeys
"John Bull, as a burly and ugly sailor, sits enthroned (right), listening to Melville's plea of innocence. Melville, in Highland dress, and wearing a feathered bonnet, stands in profile to the right. with clasped hands and flexed knees; he says: "Inde...
Alternative Title:
Iohn Bull makeing a naval enqury and John Bull making a naval enquiry
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1st, 1805, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811., and Trotter, Alexander, 1750-1830
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Sailors, British, Thrones, Ethnic stereotypes, and Pleading (Begging)
"John Bull, as a gigantic sailor, clasping both sides of a small boat, peers like an angry ogre at three French ships off the French coast, indicated by a cliff. The ships are in a row, their bows cut off by the left margin. Napoleon stands on the poo...
Alternative Title:
John Bull peeping into Brest
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Roberts, Middle Row
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Sailors, and Ships
publish'd accoding [sic] act of Parliament, Sepr. 2d 1762.
Call Number:
762.09.02.01.1+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satirical riposte to Hogarth's 'The Times Plate 1' (Paulson 211) contrasting particular elements of that print to suggest that Lord Bute is creating faction within the country while Pitt and his supporters attempt to calm the situation. St James's Pa...
Alternative Title:
John Bull's house set in flames
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Saint James's Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Fires, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), Bellows, Flatulence, Fire fighting, and Sailors
