print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.1.69
- Title
- Object: Men of War, bound for the Port of Pleasure
- Description
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A party of sailors, just landed at Chatham, with prostitutes. A sailor holding out a purse walks with a woman who puts her right arm across his shoulders, her left hand on her hip. Behind them a sailor embraces a woman who is taking his watch and seals from his fob. On the right, a sailor seated on a sea-chest puts his arm round a gaily-dressed woman who holds a purse. Behind them is a black man with a woman.
In the background a coach drives off, its roof crowded with sailors waving their hats; its panels are inscribed 'Chat[ham] to Gra[vesend]' and 'Gravesend Tide Co[ach]'. On a wall (left) is a bill, 'Chatham to Gravesend Tide Coach'. In the foreground (left) are a sea-chest, a bundle, a bludgeon. 1791
Hand-coloured mezzotint
- Production date
- 1791
- Dimensions
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Height: 350 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)
The original watercolour is in the BM (1875,0313.49)
An impression with Andrew Edmunds in 2015 was dated 25 April 1791.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.1.69