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Master B on the Middle Watch

Maker

(artist)
1792-1878

(engraver)
1792-1878

(publisher)
1788-1875

Title

Master B on the Middle Watch

Date of Production

1.8.1835

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 29 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4162

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords












deck







Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper left margin, printed: Mr B. on the Middle watch "cold blows the wind & the rains coming on"

Inscription: Recto: upper right margin, printed: Plate 3

Inscription: Recto: lower left margin, printed: [anchor symbol] = G Cruikshank sculpt.

Inscription: Recto: lower right margin, printed: Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, Augt. 1st 1835.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, printed: "Or sailing on the midnight deep / When weary messmates soundly sleep / The careful Watch patroles the deck / to guard the ship from does or wreck / and whilst his thoughts oft homeward veer" & c all's well."

Stamp: Recto: upper left mount, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY

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