A view of wartime merriment: A procession of sailors and their women, escorted by fiddlers, passes a background of shops towards a gateway across the end of the street (left). The purveyor of the jollification, a sailor who has inherited money, sits a...
Alternative Title:
Coxswain's carousal
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
"A midshipman, no longer young, in shirtsleeves, sits on a padlocked chest blacking a boot. He looks straight before him with a tragic expression. He wears his regulation top-hat, blue trousers, neatly patched, and waistcoat over a white shirt, and si...
Alternative Title:
Midshipman on half pay
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Tower Hill (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Sailors, British, Military officers, Boots, Brooms & brushes, Shoe shining, and Shoe polishes
"In a bare but neat ale-house room three Greenwich pensioners are in deep and heated discussion at a table before the fire. They point to fragments of pipe stem, arranged to show the position of ships in some engagement. Two sit, one stands; two have ...
"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
"Codrington, wearing the star of the Bath, sits on a gun-carriage on the deck of his ship, looking sternly up at an old scarred and pigtailed sailor who addresses him with an expression of consternation: Please your Honor's Glory there's something wro...
Alternative Title:
Royal speech
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Codrington, Edward, Sir, 1770-1851 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[February 1831]
Call Number:
Maidment i G761 no. 4 Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satire on Dutch and English sailors. A fat Dutchman on the left, wearing a large hat and holding a long pipe in his right hand, converses with a surly-looking English sailor on the right, who wears a small hat and holds a small pipe, a snuffbox in his...
Alternative Title:
Tort and retort
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 1831 by S. Gans, Southampton St., Strand
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 1832.
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 9 Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Working class men in patched and tattered clothing discuss the Reform Act. Among them are a dustman holding a broom and shaking shands with a Black man; a tailor holding scissors; a sailor in uniform; and a stereotypical Irishman pushing a wheelbarrow...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by Tregear, 123 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Working class, Reform, Brooms & brushes, Pipes (Smoking), Tailors, Scissors & shears, Sailors, Ethnic stereotypes, and Wheelbarrows
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
April 26th, 1834.
Call Number:
Print01027
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two battered Greenwich Pensioners, one missing all four limbs, the other an arm and a leg, in conversation outside a building marked 'The Helpless Ward' of the Hospital Infirmary, with three other severely incapacitated veterans beside it. The inscri...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Squr and Printed by S. Lingham, Bazzar, Grays Inn
"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...
