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Description: | Large creamware jug, transfer-printed in black and hand-coloured. On one side, a sailor with stick in raised left hand, wearing blue striped trousers and red striped waistcoat, arm-in-arm with a lady, a cottage in the left background. Below 'JACK SPRITSAIL COMING ON SHORE/Ah! how boldly in battle we charg'd on the foe/Let the Dutchmen the Frenchmen, Hispania all tell;/On a cruise in loves harbour when ardent we go,/Say who boxes the compass my lasses so well?' On the other side, a sailor in red waistcoat and blue striped trousers, with a young lady in a yellow ribboned bonnet on his arm. Above is a ship flanked with trophies and flags 'A MAN of WAR towing a FRIGATE into HARBOUR', below 'A SAILOR'S life's a pleasant life,/He freely roams from shore to shore;/In every port he finds a wife:/What can a sailor wish for more.' Winged Fame is shown under the handle and under the lip, Apollo with his lyre, a vine bush in the background. Around his head is inscribed 'APOLLO the God of Music' below 'C'. Based on a print 'Jack Spritsail and his Nancy on a Cruise' published May 1789 by J. Roach. Another version in C. N. Robinson's 'British Tar in Fact and Fiction' (1909), which he says is a frontispiece to a naval jest book. 'Man of War towing a frigate into harbour' is from a Carrington Bowles print of 1781. A mauve line is painted around the rim and the foot.
caption: Jug | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | jugs | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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