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• Author/Creator:Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
  
• Title:Commanders engaged at sea [graphic] / T. Rowlandson 1785.
  
• Publication:[London] : [publisher not identified], [between 1785 and 1802?]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 25.4 x 35.5 cm, on sheet 26.2 x 36.2 cm
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Mounted on leaf 3 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
    
  • Provenance:From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
    
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• Medium:wove paper.
  
• Notes:Title etched below image.
  Later state, with title altered and imprint statement burnished out, of a print published in 1785 with the title: Sea amusement, or, Commanders-in-Chief of cup and ball on a cruise. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 176-8.
  Probably published before 1802, when the imprint "Pubd. July 1st, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly" was added and the plate reissued. Cf. No. 9875 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
  Final words of burnished imprint statement barely visible below title: [...?] Oxford Street.
  
• Summary:"Two officers of high rank sit together in a cabin, gambling intently at cup (actually spike) and ball. One (left) wears a star; the other, who is older and stouter, watches the dangling ball held by his companion. At their feet is a pile of coins on papers inscribed 'Twenty Pound'. Under the former's foot is a plan of 'Fotification [sic]', under the latter's a large wall-plan of the disposition of a fleet, on which land and 'Ocean' are marked. On the broad many-paned window behind them hangs ramed plan of celestial and terrestrial globes inscribed respectively 'Celiastial' and 'Teristial'. Behind (right), a burly sailor pours out tea for the two effeminate officers, with an expression of pained contempt."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
  Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
  Riviere & Son--Binding.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1785.
  Etchings--England--London--1785.