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The Sailors Progress - sic transit gloria mundi

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Year:
1819
Contributor:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 (artist)
Sheringham, John, active 1819-1825 (artist)
Humphrey, George, 1773 ?-1831 ? (publisher)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Great Britain, Royal Navy--Caricatures and cartoons
Extent:
1 hand-colored engraving; 27 x 40.3 cm.

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Abstract:
Hand-colored etching by George Cruikshank after Lt. John Sheringham, published Jany. 19, 1819. 'A sequence of six designs arranged in two rows. [1] 'Entering as Landsman—' He stands hat in hand, grinning and alert, on the deck of a man-of-war, wearing short jacket and gaiters, facing a naval officer who takes down particulars in a note-book. A knock-kneed yokel in a smock waits his turn. Amused midshipmen look on. [2] 'Carousing on board—' He dances a jig, between two women, to the fife and drum of two marines, and the fiddle of a sailor. He has a long tarry pigtail. Sailors drink from large tankards, one smokes a cheroot. A black sailor holds a bottle. A sailor follows a woman up a companion-ladder. [3] 'In Irons for getting drunk—' He sits morosely on the ground, one ankle padlocked to the deck, beside another prisoner. A marine stands on guard behind them. Two midshipmen are studying at a table. An officer hands a pair of breeches to a cross-legged tailor. [4] 'Boarding a French brig—' He leaps fiercely on to the deck of the ship, sword in hand, ferociously seizing by the throat an elderly French sailor, having already disposed of others. A thin cook prepares to defend himself with a spit. [5] 'Promoted to Boatswain & exercising his Authority—' He clouts and kicks a little cabin-boy holding a bottle; another boy runs off, while a marine watches the encounter. He has short hair instead of pigtail, and wears a tail-coat in place of a striped shirt or jacket. [6] 'Laid up a Greenwich pensioner—relating his adventures—' He sits, with a patch over one eye, and one wooden leg, in an arm-chair by the fire of a humble room, smoking a long pipe, and gesticulating, while a countrified man listens intently, also smoking. They have a frothing tankard between them. He wears the uniform of a pensioner, with three-cornered hat. Opposite him sits a woman, absorbed in the tale; a child sits on the floor rigging a toy-boat. Over the crockery on the chimney-piece is a print of 'Greenwich Hospital', on the wall is a ballad headed by ships; a sea-chest is in the corner of the room. (He is evidently an out-pensioner.)' -- British Museum
Notes:
Long narrow folio. New York, Kennedy, 1948
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library
Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

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Cruikshank, George, and Sheringham, John, "The Sailors Progress - sic transit gloria mundi" (1819). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:dz729vy8/

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