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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/2/43 |
| Former Reference | D5459/3/117 |
| Title | Sailors in a Calm |
| Date | 1 Jan 1807 |
| Description | Three sailors sit on a heavily laden horse. The first, seated nearest the tail comments:
"What is Tom Pipes, about there at the Helm - does he mean to set Sail or not. "
The next one adds:
"We shall never get to Portsmouth at this rate."
The third, holding onto the horse's ears says:
"You may say that my hearty we have been on board this half hour and D--n me if I think I shall ever get under way."
They are watched by a fourth sailor, standing on the right, who comments:
"Why Mess-mates you seem in a dead calm."
Available on CD 163. |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Artist | Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809) |
| Engraver: Roberts |
| Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
| Further Information | Woodward delint : P Roberts sculpt
Pubd by T Tegg 111 Cheapside Jan 1 1807 (imprint very faint)
Reissue of a print originally published by Roberts. |
| Physical Description | Hand-coloured print. Size 391 x 280 mm. |
| Copies | A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
| Publication Note | BM Sat Sup. Ser. 1948-2-14-693cl |
| Term | Sailors |