Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The sailor and banker, or The firm in danger.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 16/Normal/Prints/Titles Ro-Sc GA 2014.00462
Identifier
ark:/88435/xg94hx651
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1799/10/28.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1799
Extent
1 item ; sheet 37.3 x 27.2 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 407
Grego I, p. 369 (gives title as "A Note of Hand", with a description of this plate)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: A smart sailor of the period, returning to shore with prize money galore, and a watch, chain, and seals in either fob, neat silver shoe-buckles, and a spic-span rig-out, is calling to cash a twenty-pound note on a banker, who is negligently looking at the ceiling. The honest tar, who probably thinks the amount of the draft he has to draw a veritable fortune, is evincing his consideration for the man of finance - "I say, my tight little fellow, I've brought you a Tickler! A draught for twenty pounds, that's all! But don't be downhearted, you shan't stop on my account! I'll give you two days to consider of it."
Signed in plate, lower left: "Woodward del.".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Etched by Rowlandson".

Discovery Information

Subject
Sailors—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Bankers—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Occupations—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Caricature

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f5c119b6-d640-44c5-8d19-649a44216784/manifest