| Maker(s): | Cruikshank, Robert
| | Culture: | British (1789-1856)
| | Title: | 'The Marigold Family on a Party of Pleasure, or effect of a Storm in the Little Bay of Biscay' pages 79 and 80 from the book, 'The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous...Drawn from the Life by Bernard Blackmantle (Charles Molloy Westmacott)
| | Date Made: | 1825-04-02
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | copperplate etching with aquatint
| | Place Made: | Europe; England; London
| | Measurements: | Sheet: 5 3/4 in x 9 3/8 in; 14.6 cm x 23.8 cm; Image: 4 5/16 in x 8 in; 11 cm x 20.3 cm
| | Accession Number: | AC 2006.25
| | Credit Line: | Gift in memory of Douglas R. Borlen (Class of 1948)
| | Museum Collection: | Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description:
George, No. 15205
P. 78. A boat with amateur oarsmen, overcrowded with an over-dressed picnic party, collides with a barge, "The Safety of Chelsea", whose stern is on the l. Oars (one inscribed R.C. 1825) are dropped, a hamper upsets, food falls overboard, disaster is imminent, and there is complete confusion, with shameless, self-regarding terror. The younger men are vulgarly dandified. The bargee watches, much amused; his dog barks viciously. Four amused Westminster boys and their cox pass in a racing skiff. In a pair-oar wherry two ladies sit under a canopy. The river is wide and choppy. Behind is Chelsea Church (l.).
(from George, vol. X)
Tags:
boats; dress accessories; humor; satire; social classes; social interaction; text; dogs Link to share this object record:
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