File:'Sling the Monkey' (Greenwich Pensioners caricature) RMG PY3339.tiff
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English: 'Sling the Monkey' (Greenwich Pensioners caricature) Greenwich Pensioners playing a rough game in Greenwich Park, in which a man with two peg-legs is slung in support by a rope from a tree-branch and then twirled round on his 'pin' as companions haze him with knotted handkerchiefs. He tries to mark one of them with a piece of chalk, who then becomes the next 'monkey'. The crowd includes a younger 'jack tar' in white-duck-trousered shore-going rig, and a black man, also presumably a sailor. A top-hatted figure, rear right, may be a civilian. Although the Pensioner on the left has a right lower leg he wears a peg-leg strapped onto his knee. This was also presumably a necessary part of the game for those with two normal legs. High good humour prevails. The print, with the inscribed title ' Sling the Monkey' is an illustration to Matthew Henry Barker's 'Nights at Sea; or Sketches of Naval Life During the War' (1837). The central figure being 'slung' is Mr. Nighthead of the story. |
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| Date | circa 1835 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Notes | Box Title: Greenwich H size Caricatures 13. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/143286 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | id number: PAH3339 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Fine art | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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