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Men of War, bound for the Port of Pleasure   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton

Published by: Carington Bowles
Title
Men of War, bound for the Port of Pleasure
Description
English: A party of sailors, just landed at Chatham, with prostitutes. A sailor holding out a purse walks with a woman who puts her right arm across his shoulders, her left hand on her hip. Behind them a sailor embraces a woman who is taking his watch and seals from his fob. On the right, a sailor seated on a sea-chest puts his arm round a gaily-dressed woman who holds a purse. Behind them is a black man with a woman.


In the background a coach drives off, its roof crowded with sailors waving their hats; its panels are inscribed 'Chat[ham] to Gra[vesend]' and 'Gravesend Tide Co[ach]'. On a wall (left) is a bill, 'Chatham to Gravesend Tide Coach'. In the foreground (left) are a sea-chest, a bundle, a bludgeon. 1791


Hand-coloured mezzotint
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 350 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.1.69
Notes

(Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The original watercolour is in the BM (1875,0313.49)

An impression with Andrew Edmunds in 2015 was dated 25 April 1791.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-69
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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