[Point Street, Portsmouth, or, The coxswain's carousal] [graphic].

Creator:

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker.

Edition:

[Proof before aquatint and lettering].

Published/Created:

[London] :
[Sherwood & Co.],
[1825]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 15.7 x 26 cm, on sheet 25.7 x 33 cm

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Notes:

Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826.
For published state see: No. 15212 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.

Abstract:

A view of wartime merriment: A procession of sailors and their women, escorted by fiddlers, passes a background of shops towards a gateway across the end of the street (left). The purveyor of the jollification, a sailor who has inherited money, sits astride a cask of 'real Jamaica' supported on poles carried by sailors, who wave hat and tankard towards the crowded first-floor windows. Men and women dance along the street. There are many incidents. A Jew, talking to another Jew outside a shop placarded 'Moses Slop-Shop', has his hat twitched off by the cane of a sailor who leans from above the doorway. The sailors carry an Ensign flag and a flag inscribed 'Leander', and are making for the Point. See British Museum catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Coxswain's carousal

Topics:

Celebrations.
Couples.
Crowds.
Flags.
Intoxication.
Jews,--depicted.
Painted wall signs.
Parades & processions.
Sailors--British.
Stores & shops.

Topics:

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist.
Sherwood, Jones, and Co., publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1825.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1825.
Trial proofs.

Format:

Image

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

75
C9
824
Folio 75 C9 824 no. 16

Orbis Record:

12878225

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr34255

OID:

15959189

PID:

digcoll:2795777