A sailor sits on the ground outside a house from which a man (doctor) emerges to offer assistance. He has an amused look on his face as he holds his broken peg leg. One of his two companions puts up his hand to hold off the assistance of the doctor as...
Alternative Title:
Carpenter the best surgeon
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published 24th Feby. 1800, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carpenters, Dogs, Peg legs, Physicians, British, and Sailors
"A sailor and a young woman dance a jig on the deck of a man-of-war, watched by a sailor leaning from the forecastle roof (right). They dance side by side, man's left arm raised, holding his hat, woman with hands on hips."--British Museum online catal...
"Two sailors ride (right to left) a velocipede (see No. 13399) with two saddles on the elongated bar. At the back is a seat for two passengers in which are two gaily dressed women. The first sailor says over his shoulder: "D--n it Jack this is rare sa...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by J. Johnston, 98 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Bicycles & tricycles, Dandies, British, Mail wagons, and Sailors
"Queen Caroline, stout and flamboyant, stands on the balcony over the porch of Wood's house in South Audley Street, looking down complacently with folded arms at the cheering crowd which fills the street. Alderman Wood stands cringingly behind her. A ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 19, 1820, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Subject (Topic):
Balconies, Crowds, Cheering, Sailors, Chimney sweeps, Clergy, and Telescopes
"Queen Caroline, stout and flamboyant, stands on the balcony over the porch of Wood's house in South Audley Street, looking down complacently with folded arms at the cheering crowd which fills the street. Alderman Wood stands cringingly behind her. A ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 19, 1820, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Subject (Topic):
Balconies, Crowds, Cheering, Sailors, Chimney sweeps, Clergy, and Telescopes
"Queen Caroline, stout and flamboyant, stands on the balcony over the porch of Wood's house in South Audley Street, looking down complacently with folded arms at the cheering crowd which fills the street. Alderman Wood stands cringingly behind her. A ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 19, 1820, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Subject (Topic):
Balconies, Crowds, Cheering, Sailors, Chimney sweeps, Clergy, and Telescopes
"A sailor walking (right to left) arm in arm with a young woman, her right arm in his left. He wears striped trousers, and carries a cane. She wears a ribbon-trimmed hat, short petticoat with an over-dress draped above it at the back, and an apron. Be...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Sailors, British, Military uniforms, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 66. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
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 and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
Tower Hill (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Sailors, British, Military officers, Boots, Brooms & brushes, Shoe shining, and Shoe polishes
"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
Manuscript fair copy, of dated entries recounting the departure from Liverpool, the shipwreck on the Barbary Coast, the crew's enslavement in northern Africa, and their return to Dartmouth. Many entries concern the work done, foods, illnesses and inju...
A sailor grasps the ears of his horse as he is hurled forward over its neck, just as they reach the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean. In the distance is a ship at full mast. Behind them on a cliff is a castle (Dover Castle?).
"A sailor and his pregnant fiancée stand at left before a clergyman in a white surplice who stands at right, reading from papers inscribed 'Matrimony', and asking 'Wilt thou take this Woman to be thy wedded wife'; the sailor responds in affronted man...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 25, 1805, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Brides, Clergy, Grooms (Weddings), Pregnant women, Sailors, British, and Weddings
King George IV and entourage laden with provisions, about to embark from Brighton in the Royal Yacht; representing the extravagant monarch's distressed retreat from England at the time of the Queen's trial
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by E. Pritchard, Islington Green
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Canning, George, 1770-1827., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822., Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826., Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828., and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844.
"A number of persons take shelter under the enormous hat-brim of a lady who screams, clasping her hands in alarm. An infant chimney-sweep or 'climbing boy' has climbed up her petticoats and sits astride on their lateral projection. A larger chimney-sw...
Alternative Title:
Any port in a storm
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub'd by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Chickens, Chimney sweeps, Clothing & dress, Hats, Sailors, British, Street vendors, Umbrellas, and Uniforms
"In the foreground John Bull, a drink-blotched 'cit', and George IV tug at a large pair of antlers. The King (right): "I tell you Bull I will wear them--I know they will become me--what am I allways to be disappointed." John wears a large white favour...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J.L. Marks, 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Adultery, Antlers, Pulling, Fighting, Witnesses, Sailors, and Soldiers
"In the foreground John Bull, a drink-blotched 'cit', and George IV tug at a large pair of antlers. The King (right): "I tell you Bull I will wear them--I know they will become me--what am I allways to be disappointed." John wears a large white favour...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J.L. Marks, 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Adultery, Antlers, Pulling, Fighting, Witnesses, Sailors, and Soldiers
"Illustration to a song engraved in three columns below the title: A scene on the shore, with a frigate in the offing. A grotesque naval officer, with wooden leg and black patch over one eye, takes the wrist of a young sailor of feminine appearance wh...
Alternative Title:
True and lamentable ballad call'd Billy Taylor
Description:
Title below image, at head of verses.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 24, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Eye patches, Homicides, Military officers, British, Peg legs, Sailors, Sailing ships, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
The Duke of Clarence dressed as a rough sailor, stands full-face with folded arms (three-quarter length view only), looking to the right with a belligerent stare. He wears a shapeless hat, a naval coat, striped trousers, a handkerchief knotted round h...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 28th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816. and William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
The Duke of Clarence dressed as a rough sailor, stands full-face with folded arms (three-quarter length view only), looking to the right with a belligerent stare. He wears a shapeless hat, a naval coat, striped trousers, a handkerchief knotted round h...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 28th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816. and William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
"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
