Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Tea on shore.
Call Number
C South 02/Drawer 06/GC112/Half Folio/Prints GA 2014.00825
Identifier
ark:/88435/6m311x411
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1794/01/01.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1794
Extent
1 item ; sheet 38 x 47.4 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego I, pp. 168, 253-255, 323
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Aquatints, Hand coloring
Depiction: The officers are leaving the vulgar jollifications of Grog on Board for delicate flirtations over the tea-table on shore. In those days, when opportunities for personal distinction were more frequent, commanders were recognised and entertained as heroes, and their visits on shore were not infrequently a round of agreeable festivals and social triumphs...... The head of the house, who is not apparently of the slightest consequence on this occasion, is left to indifference and the charge of the tea urn......
Unsigned.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Tea—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain. Royal Navy—Officers—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Spouses—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Flirting—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fde50ed6-e031-4558-b27a-0f2e52685bc2/manifest