#the print from one year before marryat's birth

[marryat92]

Marryat wrote, originally, for fun. He found he was a born writer. Later, he needed money badly, and was constrained to turn the jaunt into a grind: but of literary solemnity he was innocent. He was indeed, 'non-pompous', as a sailor the worse for liquor is described in Poor Jack.

— Oliver Warner, Captain Marryat: A Rediscovery

'Men of War, bound for the Port of Pleasure': 1791 mezzotint after Robert Dighton.