Shiver my topsails mater lend us your hand, I wish you may get it.
Gabriel Shire Tregear (fl.1828 - 1840)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1834
Materials
Paper, wood, glass and metal
Measurements
380 x 306 x 17 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 23029.3
Summary
Print lithograph, Shiver my topsails mate lend us your hand, I wish you may get it. One of a set of four caricature lithographs in black frames with gilt decoration. Armless Captain looking over side of ship at a sailor with no arms, hook on one arm, standing in a dinghy named the Hand in Hand. At top left in a rectangular box Treagear's / Flights of / Humour / No.40 ; inscription below picture London Pubd by G S Treagear 123, Cheapside / SHIVER MY TOPSAILS MATE LEND US YOUR HAND / I WISH YOU MAY GET IT. Some mildew damge. On back a white label with black type ARTISTIC PICTURE FRAMES (underlined) followed by standard framing information / JAMES HUDD, CARVER AND GILDER, / FINE ART DEALER , PAINT SELLER. / (in red) 7, CHRISTMAS STEPS, BRISTOL. At bottom edge Number SEVEN (underscored) UNITY STREET, College Green, BRISTOL.
Provenance
Purchased from the estate of the late Lord Wraxall with the assistance of the NHMF and donations from members and supporters
Marks and inscriptions
SHIVER MY TOPSAILS MATE LEND US YOUR HAND / I WISH YOU MAY GET IT.
Makers and roles
Gabriel Shire Tregear (fl.1828 - 1840), engraver and publisher James Hudd, carver