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| Keywords: C Mosley, The Tar's Triumph, or Bawdy-House Battery. (1 July 1749).jpg en The Tar's Triumph or Bawdy House Battery 1749 1749 British Maritime Museum print for sale and bought by myself Charles Mosley 1749 other versions A notorious incident occurred in the 1740's when a group of rioting sailors ransacked a brothel on the Strand in central London This print is just one of several to illustrate the subject and we will see at least one more in the future The British Museum happens to have a copy of this print and they wrote an interesting short bit about it primarily addressing the prostitutes in the foreground At the center of the piece is a sailor grasping a tablecloth or bedsheet locked into a tug of war with a prostitute He wears a cocked hat with the point forward and a neckerchief tied close and in the fashion of a cravat His jacket is short for the period and single breasted His trousers are very short ending at about mid-calf Otherwise he wears rounded toe shoes with rectangular buckles From the window his mate empties a drawer spilling a wide variety of items including a cat and a chamber pot The sailor wears a reversed cocked hat and an open jacket with no waistcoat PD-old-70-1923 Uploaded with UploadWizard Henry Fielding | ||||
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