Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The Welch sailor's mistake or tars in conversation.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 20/Normal/Prints/Titles V-Z GA 2014.00551
Identifier
ark:/88435/9k41zn623
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1808/06/30.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1808
Extent
1 item ; sheet 22.8 x 31.4 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 89
Tegg no. 161
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Groups of sailors are seated on the forecastle, some perched on coils of ropes, others on sea chest. A British tar, on a barrel, with a canister of "real Oronooko" by his side, is spinning a yarn to his messmates. He has arrived at the exciting incident of his narrative: "and so then, do you see, David, we sprung a leak!" When his Welsh messmate, who cannot resist this allusion to a reputed national delicacy rather irrationally interrupts him: "Cot pless us - and save us - did you? And a ferry coot fetchitable it is. I should have liked to have had a pit with you."
Signed in plate, lower left: "Woodward delin.".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson scul.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Sailors—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Miscommunication—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain. Royal Navy—Sea life—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/41310881-e134-437b-aebe-f3c4119e84f3/manifest