Jump to content

File:An East Indiaman (ship) buffeted by winds blown by four putt Wellcome V0050190.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (3,615 × 2,263 pixels, file size: 3.52 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Charles Williams: A Buckinghamshire Breeze - or an East Indiaman in Danger   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Charles Williams  (–1830)  wikidata:Q5083601
 
Description British caricaturist, illustrator and printmaker
Date of birth/death 1830 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5083601
Title
A Buckinghamshire Breeze - or an East Indiaman in Danger
Description

An East Indiaman (ship) buffeted by winds blown by four putti directed by the Earl of Buckinghamshire, President of the Board of Control. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1813.

Plate from 'Town Talk', iv. 83. An East Indiaman, symbolizing the Company, heels dangerously, beset by huge waves, and by blasts from the mouths of four winds (right), inscribed respectively 'East', 'West', 'North', 'South', all directed against her by a winged man (Buckinghamshire) seated god-like upon clouds (right). He is a conventional bearded figure, surrounded by swirling drapery, on which (incorrectly) is a star. The ship, flying the striped ensign of the Company, recedes in perspective to the right, her stern towards the spectator. This is inscribed 'Inglis Commander' and 'The Directors of Leadenhall Street'. One man, the helmsman, is visible; he tugs at the tiller, saying, "Oh these cursed Buckinghamshire breezes will sink us, and there be at least 20,000 souls lost." The three-masted ship, crowded with sail, drives towards a lee shore, represented by a quay, backed by warehouses, where five vessels lie, inscribed respectively: 'Adventure of Bristol', 'Britainia of Plymouth', 'Happy Return of Liverpool', 'Swiftsure of Leith', 'Mercury of Glasgow'. On the quay are piled bales and packages inscribed 'for Madras', 'for Calcutta', 'for Bengal', 'for China'. Tiny figures stand behind them, cheering the doomed ship; eight labels ascend from them and from the anchored ships: 'Twenty of these bales I have had lying here these six months waiting for permission, freight, and one thing or another untill they were nearly spoiled'; 'Aye! Aye! we have long groan'd under this d—d Monopoly'; 'by [sic] thank God it looks in a dying state'; 'I wouldnt throw out a cable to save her—the timbers in her would have been enough for a hundred moderate merchantmen'; 'I believe so, & the pitch & tar & copper & rigging of her have cost the Nation a mint of money let the usurers deny it if they will'; 'Well if these tight little vessels can but get out one may venture at a bit of speculation now an then'; 'Shiver my topsails—but if that damnable twenty decker was once fairly stowed in Davys Locker, we should have plenty of freight'; 'Free Trade for ever! and No Monopolies; Da—me but I should like to see these Injies as they call um'; 'and we can direct ourselves to market without any Directors.' 1 March 1813 Hand-coloured etching

(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949) For the controversy over the East India Company and the agitation of the Out Ports for untrammelled admission to the trade with India and China see No. 11999, &c.

Iconographic Collections
Keywords: Charles Williams; Robert Hobart

Credit line

This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Refer to Wellcome blog post (archive).
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

References
Source/Photographer

https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/ef/9e/d4c90b6bd86d401d56ce02a628f7.jpg

Licensing

w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

image/jpeg

5bc9252d4f79484b8bfa4306fc66134a401dd2d5

3,696,138 byte

2,263 pixel

3,615 pixel

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current10:51, 8 November 2014Thumbnail for version as of 10:51, 8 November 20143,615 × 2,263 (3.52 MB)=={{int:filedesc}}== {{Artwork |artist = |author = |title = An East Indiaman (ship) buffeted by winds blown by four putt |description = An East Indiaman (ship) buffeted by winds blown by four putti directed b...

The following page uses this file:

Metadata