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English: A young woman wearing a feathered hat, leaning forward and waving to a departing ship through a window, while she straddles a sailor lying on a bench; a second couple by a window behind and to right; in the foreground to left, a large dog and table with a tankard and glass; above, a caged bird.
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Date 1790-1810 (c.)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 199 millimetres (trimmed)
Width: 256 millimetres (trimmed)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1977,U.545
Notes

See also 1977,U.508 and 1977,U.509, two other large format erotic aquatints by Rowlandson, each with an aquatint border as here. Lit.: Vic Gatrell, 'City of Laughter' (London, 2006), p. 400, where the print is illustrated as 'The farewell'. Tim Clayton has pointed out (personal communication, 25 February 2011; see also T. Clayton, "Tars", 2007, pp. 184-85) that the 1759 Gazetteer says that Gosport was where 'Sailors Wives live for the most part' and 'Needy Sailors are entertained here with occasional Wives in brief, as they are at Amsterdam, & in Truth – perhaps in every other large Sea-port Town for Ships of war'. The Rowlandson joke is that these (at least the one in the foreground) are 'occasional Wives in brief', a kind of 'wife' who crops up quite frequently contesting sailors' wills with rival 'wives'. A song recorded by a young James Gardner in 1780 which he heard sung by the 'Gosport girls' on the beach may also be relevant:

Don't you see the ships a coming? Don't you see them in full sail? Don't you see the ships a coming With the prizes at their tail? Oh! My little rolling sailor, Oh! My little rolling he; I do love a jolly sailor, Blithe and merry might he be.

Sailors, they get all the money, Soldiers they get none but brass; I do love a jolly sailor, Soldiers they may kiss my arse. Oh! My little rolling sailor, Oh! My little rolling he; I do love a jolly sailor,

Soldiers may be damned for me.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1977-U-545
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