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print
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satirical print
Object Type
print
satirical print
Museum number
1948,0214.690
Title
Object:
A sailors will.
Description
A stern sailor, his right leg a wooden peg, seated in an armchair at left, holding out a long-stemmed pipe in his right hand against a table, and dictating his will to a disreputable-looking sailor-lawyer with striped garters seated opposite at right, who writes out the document with a quill pen; the sailor's will fills over five lines along the top of the design, beginning, 'I Jack Junks, being sound in timber and the upper decks tolerably clear, ...' 25 May 1805 Hand-coloured etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Thomas Rowlandson
After:
George Moutard Woodward
Published by:
Ackermann
School/style
British
Production date
1805
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
hand-coloured
Dimensions
Height:
270 millimetres
(cropped)
Width:
340 millimetres
(cropped)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
A companion plate to 1948,0214.688.
Bibliographic references
BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(undescribed)
Grego 1880 / Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures
(p. 51)
(vol. II)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
satire
sailor
lawyer
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Francis D Klingender
Acquisition date
1948
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1948,0214.690