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Description: | Plaster figures of two beggars, one a disabled seaman. The sailor carries a board round his neck showing a sinking ship. Both the men depicted are elderly. The seaman has one eye, a wooden leg and has a left hand missing. He has a crutch under one arm and wears a tricorn hat. His companion wears a round hat and an apron and has his hands in his pockets. They are mounted on a wooden base under a glass dome. See OBJ0526.
Chapter 57. Moby Dick.
On Tower-hill, as you go down to the London docks, you may have seen a crippled beggar (or kedger, as the sailors say) holding a painted board before him, representing the tragic scene in which he lost his leg. There are three whales and three boats; and one of the boats (presumed to contain the missing leg in all its original integrity) is being crunched by the jaws of the foremost whale.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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