Oh, look at this-- all the little details, it is like a Brueghel. I especially like the confused looking man popping his head up the ladderwell. He needs to be careful he does not get stepped on!
And look at how studious they are, no carousing for them, they are all hitting the books! (Seems suspicious somehow.)
One thing I notice is how, even though the artist made the space big so you can see, there is nothing to sit on. The guy ont he left with the mirror has a sea-chest just like mine. (Mine is from about 1790, I think,) same exact color and all. And i like the guy sitting on the barrel. Like any of us sitting on a sturdy cardboard box.
That is a serious chain, too. No kidding around making it cute. They were living in a machine.
I wonder who the sailor on the right is looking for, and weather the mid wants to be found?
There is something rather Breughelish about this isn't there? And I think you are right that the lack of carousing is rather suspicious, especially in comparison to Huphrey's scene. They seem to have stashed their grog and are on their best behaviour.
I like the way they are all sitting on chests and casks or just sprawled on the deck. I can just imagine Archie sitting tucked up in a corner reading.
They were living in a machine. yes, I've never really thought about it like that but you're absolutely right.
That was me, btw. I was having a terrible time posting this morning. My post kept getting eaten, and I don't know why. But I have got some tea in the engine now, my hands and brain have woken up.
Yes, there seems to be an affinity between monkeys and ships!
My mother was a travelling teachers working in little rural schools on the island for a lot of her career and I remember her telling me how she was once greeted at the door of a tiny one room school by a little boy gabbling away to her in gaelic. She was very surprised as he was so shy she had never heard him speak before but she couldn't understand what he was saying. His teacher later explained that the boy was telling her that his father had just come home from sea and had brought a monkey with him. The monkey had escaped form the house and had run up a telegraph pole in the village and they had spent all night trying to get him down again!
Sigh* wish we could see the Indy's lower decks through a mirror made in 1797 but we almost can :) I know! That's one of the reasons I love these pictures. You can really start to identify all the different characters we know so well :)
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And look at how studious they are, no carousing for them, they are all hitting the books! (Seems suspicious somehow.)
One thing I notice is how, even though the artist made the space big so you can see, there is nothing to sit on. The guy ont he left with the mirror has a sea-chest just like mine. (Mine is from about 1790, I think,) same exact color and all. And i like the guy sitting on the barrel. Like any of us sitting on a sturdy cardboard box.
That is a serious chain, too. No kidding around making it cute. They were living in a machine.
I wonder who the sailor on the right is looking for, and weather the mid wants to be found?
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I like the way they are all sitting on chests and casks or just sprawled on the deck. I can just imagine Archie sitting tucked up in a corner reading.
They were living in a machine.
yes, I've never really thought about it like that but you're absolutely right.
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(Of course he thought an 800 pig on the Q-deck was ok too.)
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My mother was a travelling teachers working in little rural schools on the island for a lot of her career and I remember her telling me how she was once greeted at the door of a tiny one room school by a little boy gabbling away to her in gaelic. She was very surprised as he was so shy she had never heard him speak before but she couldn't understand what he was saying. His teacher later explained that the boy was telling her that his father had just come home from sea and had brought a monkey with him. The monkey had escaped form the house and had run up a telegraph pole in the village and they had spent all night trying to get him down again!
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because we all know who has some baboons he needs a home for in a hurry...
marvellous picture by the way -I can see so much going on there of our boys
we know from the court martial that some of poor BAdcock's more peaceful moments were " at music on his flute"
and we know that someone on the Indy drew cariactures of his fellow mids ( just what WAS the backstory of Nicky and the chicken????)
and Mr MCkerlie was a fine map maker and artist ..which is why he nwo sells for 5 figures for a page
*Sigh* wish we could see the Indy's lower decks through a mirror made in 1797
but we almost can :)
and of course I am now writing a baboon plot bunny when I am supposed to be writing a chapter about middies ...
thanks for this wonderful pic
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Sigh* wish we could see the Indy's lower decks through a mirror made in 1797
but we almost can :)
I know! That's one of the reasons I love these pictures. You can really start to identify all the different characters we know so well :)
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time for Monkeyfic I think !
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