Embarking at Grain

Mounted with PAD7506 and PAD7508. One of the illustrations (pl. viii) to the 'hudibrastic' poetic account of 'The Five Days' Peregrination' by Ebenezer Forrest, illustrated by Scott and Hogarth, who took part in it with Forrest, James Thornhill and a friend called Tothall: 'Till holding in each hand an oar, / He made a sort of bridge to shore, / O'er which on hands and knees we crawl, / And so get safe onboard the yawl.' The figures are, left to right: Forrest pushing the reluctant Scott forward; Hogarth crawling along the oars; Thornhill stretches out a hand from the yawl to help him, and Tothall seated at the helm behind the boatman. The fleet lies in the Medway off Sheerness in the background. This is not apparently the original edition, in which the illustrations were more compressed and had lettered keys. [PvdM 4/13]

Object Details

ID: PAD7507
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Kilburn, T; Scott, Samuel Milburn, T.
Places: Unlinked place
Date made: 1772
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London