File:Midshipman Blockhead, Mr B on the Middle Watch, "cold blows the wind and the rains coming on" (caricature) RMG PU4832.tiff
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George Cruikshank; Thomas McLean |
| Description |
English: Midshipman Blockhead, Mr B on the Middle Watch, "cold blows the wind & the rains coming on" (caricature) Plate 3 of 8 (with two additional plates): Things get worse for Master Blockhead, now pictured in the foreground in the working dress of a sailor, exposed to the elements. The driving rain is making Master B walk miserably; he is drenched while his more experienced colleagues on deck wear greatcoats. One is steering the ship and another sits hunched holding a speaking gold coloured trumpet – an ironic reference, perhaps, to the trumpet of Fame that features on the frontispiece. The only other man is a black servant wearing a long white shirt and carrying a decanter filled with what may be wine. Over all, the scene is a bleak, unromantic vision of life on deck, a reality that was a far cry from Master B’s boyhood dreams. Inscribed below the print, lines from ‘All’s Well’ from The British Fleet by Thomas Dibdin: ‘Or sailing on the midnight deep / When weary messmates soundly sleep / The careful Watch patroles the deck / To guard the Ship from foes or wreck – / And whilst his thoughts of homeward veer. &c. alls well’ Related to: BM Reg number 1891, 1117.26 'The Life of a Midshipman' by Captain Frederick Marryat, (1820) scene on deck at night. Other versions of this image in the collection are: PAD4723, PAD0162, PAI5981, PAI6567, PAJ183. |
| Date | 1 August 1835 |
| Dimensions | Sheet: 210 mm x 290 mm |
| Notes | Box Title: 5 caricatures. |
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/108983 |
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
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. |
| Identifier | id number: PAD4832 |
| Collection | Fine art |
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