A drunken party with sailors and their women drinking, smoking, and dancing wildly as a band plays. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.

  • Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Date:
1 October 1825
Reference:
26925i
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Publication/Creation

London (Ivy Lane) : J. Robins & co, 1 October 1825.

Physical description

1 print : process print after an etching ; image 11 x 16 cm

Lettering

Sailors carousing; or, a peep into the long room. for grog is our larboard, our starboard, Our mainmast, our mizen, our log; At sea, or on shore, or when harbour'd, The mariner's compass is grog. ; G. Cruikshank fect. ; C. H. sc.

Notes

An additional print (Wellcome Library catalogue no. 24926i) is on the reverse of the same sheet

Reference

Wellcome Collection 26925i

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