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31.
The r-l speech [graphic]

Creator:
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:
[February 1828]
Call Number:
828.02.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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
Subject (Topic):
Emblems, Sailors, British, and Swords
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The r-l speech [graphic]

32.
Imperial bears Greece or a peep into futurity [graphic]

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
Published / Created:
[1828]
Call Number:
828.00.00.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Imperial bears Greece or a peep into futurity [graphic]

33.
Nautical dispute [graphic]

Creator:
Phillips, John, active 1825-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:
Nov. 21, 1827.
Call Number:
827.11.21.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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 ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Gillard, 40, Strand
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
Subject (Topic):
Amputees, Peg legs, Disabled veterans, Interiors, Sailors, British, Taverns (Inns), and Drinking vessels
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Nautical dispute [graphic]

34.
A mid- on half pay Tower Hill. [graphic]

Creator:
Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:
1827.
Call Number:
827.00.00.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A mid- on half pay Tower Hill. [graphic]

35.
[Point Street, Portsmouth, or, The coxswain's carousal] [graphic].

Creator:
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1825]
Call Number:
Folio 75 C9 824 no. 16
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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.
Publisher:
Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Celebrations, Crowds, Couples, Flags, Intoxication, Painted wall signs, Parades & processions, Sailors, British, and Stores & shops
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Point Street, Portsmouth, or, The coxswain's carousal] [graphic].

36.
[A jollification on board The Peranga] [graphic].

Creator:
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist
Published / Created:
[1825]
Call Number:
Folio 75 C9 824 no. 15
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Sailors carouse in a drunken orgy between decks; hammocks are slung from the roof and drunken sailors vomit over the sides into the crowd. Musicians play fiddles and drums. Men and women drink and dance. A negro fiddles; a Jew sits on the ground ready...
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of, 1775-1860
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Jews, Boys, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Fighting, Military officers, British, Musicians, Robberies, Sailors, and Vomiting
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A jollification on board The Peranga] [graphic].

37.
Point Street, Portsmouth, or, The coxswain's carousal [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:
Nov. 1, 1826.
Call Number:
825.11.01.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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 ...
Alternative Title:
Coxswain's carousal
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Celebrations, Crowds, Couples, Flags, Intoxication, Painted wall signs, Parades & processions, Sailors, British, and Stores & shops
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Point Street, Portsmouth, or, The coxswain's carousal [graphic]

38.
Sailors on a cruise [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
Sepr. 1st, 1825.
Call Number:
825.09.01.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Robins & Co., Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, Intoxication, and Carriages & coaches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sailors on a cruise [graphic]

39.
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 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
Description:
Title from caption below image.
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]

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