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Julius Caesar Ibbetson: Sailors Carousing  wikidata:Q50858177 reasonator:Q50858177
Artist
Julius Caesar Ibbetson  (1759–1817)  wikidata:Q12060656
 
Julius Caesar Ibbetson
Description English painter and landscape painter
Date of birth/death 29 December 1759 Edit this at Wikidata 13 October 1817 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Leeds Edit this at Wikidata Masham Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q12060656
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Title
English: Sailors Carousing
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: A scene in an unspecified tavern at Portsmouth after one or more ships have been paid off. The painting may be a retrospective celebration of the Battle of the Glorious First of June 1794 since, although executed much later and after Ibbetson had moved to the north of England, it reuses elements of a watercolour by him showing a similar scene and dated 3 July 1794.

The room is crowded with sailors and men and women carousing. The ceiling, floors and walls enclose the action and a single lamp hangs from the ceiling to the right. The outline of a carriage, with several revellers alighting or departing frames the door on the right. The opening to the left shows a seaman wearing a hat and chain, with a boatswain's whistle, borne aloft on a chair. Two bare-headed women are highlighted in the foreground: the one to the right has two men paying attention to her, and the woman on the left sits on a sailor's knee. Impropriety is implied in their conduct.

Although sailor's pay was low and often in arrears, prize money provided welcome bonuses after victorious actions, but it was rarely saved. The narrative indicates a group of three seamen in the foreground to the left of centre both pretending to fry their watches or play 'conkers' with them. This refers back to a celebrated incident in 1762 when, after capturing a Spanish galleon, seamen of the 'Active' and 'Favourite' were so loaded with prize money that they were recorded as frying watches, as shown. One of the women in the foreground wears a watch around her waist.
Date 1802
date QS:P571, 1802-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 43.2 cm (17 in); width: 58.4 cm (22.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,43.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,58.4U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1199924
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BHC1090
Credit line National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
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Source/Photographer National Maritime Museum

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