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The Progress of a Midshipman exemplified in the career of Master Blockhead in seven plates & Frontispiece (caricature)

PAG8637

Object connections:

Collection	Fine art, Caricatures, Prints, drawings and watercolours
Gallery location	Not on display
People	Depiction: Blockhead, William

Object details:

Object ID	PAG8637
Description	Mounted with PAG8635-PAG8636.; Hand-coloured.; Plate No.8.; No.125. Bound in album PAG8512 with prints PAG8513-PAG8647; PAG8649- PAG8666.
Date made

Artist/Maker	Cruikshank, George
Credit	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Materials	aquatint, coloured
Measurements	Sheet: 196 x 278 mm
Parts	Sailors in Caricature. Rowlandson, Woodward, Cruikshank, Williams, Heath, etc (PAG8512) Jack Oakham throwing out a Signal for an Engagement (caricature) (PAG8513) A Fleet Wedding Between a brisk young sailor & his Landlady's Daughter at Rederiff (caricature) (PAG8514) The Sailor's Fleet Wedding Entertainment (caricature) (PAG8515) Request this item All hands to a Court Martial (caricature) (PAG8516) Next Sculls at the Adm..ty (caricature) (PAG8517) Rodney Triumphant - or - Admiral Lee-Shore in the Dumps (caricature) (PAG8518) The Plenipotentiary at a Masquerade (caricature) (PAG8519) Admiral Rodney's Triumph Addres'd to the Tars of Old England (caricature) (PAG8520) None but the Brave Deserve the Fair (caricature) (PAG8521) Commanders Engaged at Sea (caricature) (PAG8522) Election - Troops, bringing in their accounts to the Pay-Table (sailors voting for Lord Hood) (caricature) (PAG8523) The Greenwich Pensioner Written and composed by Mr Dibdin, For his Entertainment called The Oddities (caricature) (PAG8524) A Fleet of Transports under Convoy (caricature) (PAG8525) Slugs in a Saw-Pit (caricature) (PAG8526) The Liberty of the Subject [the Press Gang] (caricature) (PAG8527) The Fruition of Nantes or the Vision Interpreted (caricature) (PAG8528) Three figures in a box at the theatre (caricature) (PAG8529) A Cruize to Covent Garden (caricature) (PAG8530) A Peep into Saldanha Bay or Dutch Perfidy Rewarded (caricature) (PAG8531) Meeting an Old Friend with a New Face (caricature) (PAG8532) [Meeting a New Friend with an Old Face] (caricature) (PAG8533) Forget and Forgive or honest Jack shaking hands with an Old Aquaintance (caricature) (PAG8534) The Delegates in Council or Beggars on Horseback (caricature) (PAG8535) Dutch Policy or the Fruits of the Expedition!!! (caricature) (PAG8536) Admiral Nelson recreating with his Brave Tars after the Glorious Battle of the Nile (caricature) (PAG8537) The Gallant Nelson bringing home two Uncommon fierce French Crocodiles from the Nile as a Present to the King (caricature) (PAG8538) Lilliputian - Substitutes, Equiping for Public Service (caricature) (PAG8539) Union between England & Ireland (caricature) (PAG8540) How to Save a Shot (caricature) (PAG8541) Dido in Despair (caricature) (PAG8542) Dido in Despair (caricature) (PAG8543) Jack P---- [Payne] the Little Admiral taken on the Steyne at Brighton (caricature) (PAG8544) Descriptions of Battles by Sea & Land, in Two Volumes, From the Kings Library's at Greenwich & Chelsea [Pensioners] (caricature) (PAG8545) Northern Bears taught to Dance (caricature) (PAG8546) The Balance of Justice (caricature) (PAG8547) The Indignant Tar (caricature) (PAG8548) St Patrick's Day in the Morning (caricature) (PAG8549) The Jolly Tars of Old England on a Land Cruise (caricature) (PAG8550) The Departure (caricature) (PAG8551) Jack Junk's Opinion of the French Language (caricature) (PAG8552) The Way to Stop a Yarmouth Cart! (caricature) (PAG8553) 'Equity or a Sailor's Prayer before Battle. Anecdote of the Battle of Trafalgar' (caricature) (PAG8554) An English Sailor at a French Eating House (caricature) (PAG8555) The Ceremony of Shaving as Performed on Young Sailors (caricature) (PAG8556) View of an admiral on crutches (caricature) (PAG8557) Bleeding Neptune or A Scotch Experiment!! (caricature) (PAG8558) John Bull, making a Naval Enquiry (caricature) (PAG8559) A Naval Enquiry with a Naught-ical Explanation (caricature) (Dundas) (PAG8560) Brave Nelson's last Lash or a Momento for the Dons (caricature) (PAG8561) The Sailor's Monument to the Memory of Lord Nelson (caricature) (PAG8562) Jack and Poll at Portsmouth, after the Battle of Trafalgar (caricature) (PAG8563) Making a Sailor an Odd Fellow!! (caricature) (PAG8564) Jack Bowlings Voyage to the Gretna Green Tabacconist (PAG8565) The - high - Flying Candidate, (i.e. Little Paul-Goose, ) mounting from a Blanket (caricature) (Hood) (PAG8566) Proof Positive or no Deceiving a Sailor (caricature) (PAG8567) A sailor at a Quakers Funeral (caricature) (PAG8568) View of the Hustings in Covent Garden - Vide, The Westminster Election, Novr 1806 (caricature) (PAG8569) The Sailor and the Quack Doctor!! (caricature) (PAG8570) Sailors in a calm (caricature) (PAG8571) Nautical Comfort (caricature) (PAG8572) Sailors Eating Pork (caricature) (PAG8573) Making a Sailor a Free Mason (caricature) (PAG8574) Jack Jolly steering down Wapping in Ballast trim (caricature) (PAG8575) A Sailor Sitting for his Miniature (caricature) (PAG8576) A Poney Race (caricature) (PAG8577) A Milling Match between Decks (caricature) (PAG8578) The Sailor's Defence (caricature) (PAG8579) Accommodation or Lodgings to Let at Portsmouth!! (caricature) (PAG8580) Miseries of London (caricature) (PAG8581) Miseries Personal (caricature) (PAG8582) Poll of Horselydown Sung by Mr Grimaldi, at Sadlers Wells (caricature) (PAG8583) Jack Junk embarking on a Cruize!! (caricature) (PAG8584) Sailors rigging out Poll (caricature) (PAG8585) A Seamans Wifes Reckoning (caricature) (PAG8586) An Unexpected Explosion or Jack at the Puppet Shew (caricature) (PAG8587) Nautical Observations on Female Dress (caricature) (PAG8588) An Irish Leap, or a Pat reply to a plain Question (caricature) (PAG8589) A Glee. How shall we Mortals Spend our Hours? In Love! In War. In Drinking. (caricature) (PAG8590) The Bell Weather and the Bell-Hanger or the Chesunt Blacksmith, a true Story (caricature) (PAG8591) Curious Dogs from the North Pole; or the Return of the Arctic Expedition!! (caricature) (PAG8592) The Cheerful Cobler (caricature) (PAG8593) An Enquiry after Stretchit in Gloucestershire or the Sailors Reply (caricature) (PAG8594) A Grand Country Dance. ('This Life is like a Country Dance the World a spacious Ball Room' Dibdin (caricature) (PAG8595) Tom Tack's Ghost (caricature) (PAG8596) The Welch Sailor's Mistake or Tars in Conversation (caricature) (PAG8597) The Ghost of Byng (caricature) (PAG8598) The Wooden Leg - or Careful Landlady (caricature) (PAG8599) The Use of a Gentleman - or Patronage for the Admiralty (caricature) (PAG8600) Stern hold and Hopkins at sea or a Stave out of Time (caricature) (PAG8601) A First Rate Man of War, Taken from the Dockyard, Plymouth (caricature) (PAG8602) The Ne - Plus - Ultra of Seamen alias Ultra-Marine (caricature) (William IV) (PAG8603) A Design for a Monument To be erected in commemoration of the... Grand Expidition... 1809 (caricature) (Flushing) (PAG8604) An Affecting Scene in the Downs (caricature) (PAG8605) Making a compass at sea - or the Use of a Scotch Louse (caricature) (PAG8606) A Tender Parting at the Grand Junction Canal (caricature) (PAG8607) An Irish Pilot or Steering by Chance (caricature) (PAG8608) The Merry Ships Crew - or Nautical Philosophers (caricature) (PAG8609) Sweet Poll of Plymouth (caricature) (PAG8610) Rigging out a Smuggler (caricature) (PAG8611) Bath Races (caricature) (PAG8612) Tegg's Caricatures No.2. Easterly Winds, or Scudding Under Bare Poles (PAG8613) Accommodation ladder (caricature) (PAG8614) Tegg's Caricatures No.10. True Born Britons or Constitutional Chorus (PAG8615) The Disconsolate sailor or Miss Longing for a Pole (caricature) (PAG8616) The R[oya]l lover or, The Admiral on a Lee Shore (caricature) (William IV) (PAG8617) A Sailor on the Mane or a trip to Sea (caricature) (PAG8618) Sailors on Horseback (caricature) (PAG8619) Portsmouth Point (caricature) (PAG8620) Sailors drinking the Tunbridge Waters (caricature) (PAG8621) Things as they Have Been. Things as they now are (caricature) (PAG8622) A Buckinghamshire Breeze - or an East Indiaman in Danger (caricature) (PAG8623) Peace and Plenty (caricature) (PAG8624) The Merchants Memorial to Alley Croker (caricature) (PAG8625) The Interior of a Packet (caricature) (PAG8626) Fun at Sea - the Sham Fight off Brighton with the capture of the Knight of the Larder Privateer - or the Alderman in Chains (caricature) (Sir William Curtis and Prince Regent) (PAG8627) Dandies having a treat (caricature) (PAG8628) Defrauding the Customs, or shipping of Goods not Fairly Entered (caricature) (PAG8629) The Last Jig or Adieu to Old England (caricature) (PAG8630) Puzzled which to Choose!! or, The King of Tombuctoo offering one of his daughters in marriage to Capt--- (anticipated result of ye African Mission) (caricature) (portrait of Captain Marryat) (PAG8631) An Interesting scene on board an East Indiaman, showing the Effects of a heavy Lurch, after dinner (caricature) (PAG8632) Equity or a Sailor's Prayer before Battle. Anecdote of the Battle of Trafalgar (caricature) (PAG8633) Lacing in Style - or A Dandy Midshipman preparing for action (caricature) (PAG8634) The Sailors Progress Sic transit gloria Mundi (caricature) (PAG8635) Arrival at the North Pole (caricature) (PAG8636) The Progress of a Midshipman exemplified in the career of Master Blockhead in seven plates & Frontispiece (caricature) (PAG8637) Launching a Frigate (caricature) (PAG8638) The Dread nought taking a Smack (caricature) (PAG8639) Shiver my Timbers Poll your grown out of Compass. I can scarcely embrace you (caricature) (PAG8640) Amorous Ladys. or Tete - a - Tete Exstraohnary (caricature) (Lady Strachan) (PAG8641) Dignity! 'Grace was in all her Steps Heaven in her eye, in all her actions dignity' (caricature) (PAG8642) Places Personified (caricature) (PAG8643) Symptoms of not having been often to Church (caricature) (PAG8644) Above Deck, or the Pleasures of a steam packet (caricature) (PAG8645) Point Steer, Portsmouth, or, the Coxwain Carousal (caricature) (PAG8646) Sailors Carousing, or a peep in the Long room (caricature) (PAG8647) The Interior of a Midshipman's Birth (caricature) (PAG8648) Request this item Ostend Packet in a Squall (caricature) (PAG8649) Jack's Wedding Day (caricature) (PAG8650) Ardent Spirits (caricature) (PAG8651) The Steam Boat (caricature) (PAG8652) A Nautical Impromptu (caricature) (Duke of Clarence) (PAG8653) The Dream (caricature) (PAG8654) Barney Buntline and Billy Bowling, or The Advantages of being at Sea (caricature) (music piece) (PAG8655) The R---l Speech (caricature) (PAG8656) Melancholy Loss of the Medal (caricature) (Sir Charles Napier) (PAG8657) Searching an English Ship in the Dardanelles - or our faithful Ally showing his respect for the British Flag (caricature) (PAG8658) The New Preventive Man on the lookout (caricature) (PAG8659) Another Mistake!! Poor Billy... (caricature) (Sir Charles Napier?) (PAG8660) The New Landlords First Orders - open the park for the people quick I say - Shakespeare (caricature) (PAG8661) Run Neighbours Run - St A1-n's is Quadrilling it (caricature) (PAG8662) Disabled sailor and soldier leaning on drum toasting Union Flag supported by young sailor (caricature) (PAG8663) Nautical leaf (caricature) (PAG8664) Sailor leaning on anchor with foot on gun barrel, holding paper in left hand (caricature) (PAG8665) A Hard Row, or Salt Water Sailor! (caricature) (PAG8666)
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