print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1866,1114.663
- Title
- Object: Nautical experience
- Description
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A sailor heaves a donkey over the railing of a small enclosure, holding its fore-legs across his shoulders, so that the beast looks over his head. Another sailor stoops to support the ass's hindquarters on his own back. A paunchy man wearing top-boots, and with a dog, stands (l.) in profile to the right., angrily facing the sailor; he says: "Who gave you authority to release that ass from the Pound". The sailor, who is smoking a pipe, answers: "Why look you master - the thing was this - we saw him aground without Victuals d'ye see and so my messmate and I agreed to Cut his Cable and set him at liberty because we have known before now what it is to be at short allowance." 1803?
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 275 millimetres
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Width: 349 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
Also a reissue (Roberts's imprint covered by shading): 'London Pubd Janry 11812 [date apparently altered from 1807] by Ts Tegg.'
Again reissued with date altered to 1818. A. de R. xiv. 44.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1866,1114.663
