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The 18th-Century British Mezzotint Satires
1798

TEMPTING AN ADMIRAL TO ENGAGE
405
Published 1 January 1798 by Laurie & Whittle

A young prostitute clasps the hand of an older sea-officer and points into a public house with the sign, "Wines, Haddocks" over the door. She wears the loose, billowy gowns of the late 90s, and a top hat with ostrich feathers. The officer, who is peg-legged and in uniform with sword, supports himself with a walking-stick in his free hand. Behind the officer, another young woman looks on from an arched alcove in the stone building. The subtitle reads "Hot Work in all Weathers." This impression appears to be the reworking and reissue of an earlier Sayer and Bennett plate, published April 19, 1783, titled A Lugtail Privateer towing A Crippl'd Man of War into Port.

32.5 x 26.1 cm.
New York Public Library (MEZYRK)

Sir Sydney Smith's Escape from France
422
Published 18th June 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London

Three men in a small boat push off from shore toward the open sea. The stern is in the surf with the figure in the foreground, the naval officer, straining on a long pole. A sailor sits behind him with an oar and the another stands in the bow and pushes with the other oar. In the far distance on the coast is a village with one prominent cylindrical structure, perhaps the prison. The couplet subtext is from John Dryden:

Pressure of Mind, and Courage in Distress,
Are more than Armies to procure Success.

Sir Sydney Smith had been captured on April 18, 1796, while commanding the Frigate Dimond on a raid of the Port of Havre. He had been held for two years in Paris before making his escape. He arrived safe in London May 6, 1798.

31.8 x 25.5 cm.
The Mariners' Museum (LP1019)

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