A French hail storm, or, Neptune loosing sight of the Brest fleet [graphic]

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Title
A French hail storm, or, Neptune loosing sight of the Brest fleet [graphic]
Alternative Title
French hailstorm
Neptune loosing sight of the Brest fleet
Creator
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created
[10 December 1793]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Abstract

"Admiral Howe stands in a boat formed of a gold shell and drawn by two dolphins (as in BMSat 8469) towards the coast, where there is a stone with a hand pointing to Torbay. He covers his eyes with a hand to protect them from a shower of guineas which fill his boat and which he holds up the skirt of his coat to collect. The dolphins spout guineas. His large Union flag is attached to an upright trident; a blast of coins strikes the flag, tearing a large hole. The coins are blown from the mouths of winged cherubic heads wearing bonnets-rouges (right). They drive Howe's boat away from 'Brest', a fortress on the horizon towards which a French fleet is sailing unmolested. Howe says: "Zounds, these damn'd hail stones hinder one from doing ones duty! - I cannot see out of my Eyes for them! - Ah! it was just such another cursed peppering as this, that I fell inn with, on the coast of America in the last War; - what a deuce of a thing it is, that whenever I'm just going to play the Devil, I am hinder'd by these confounded French storms, or eke, loose my way in a Fog.""--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Reference to America -- Reference to Torbay, Devonshire -- Reference to Brest -- Mythology: reference to Neptune -- Neptune's trident -- Money: guineas -- Boats -- Dolphins -- Flags: Union Jack.
Provenance
Old Print Shop ; June 1961 ;
Extent
1 print : sheet 32 x 37 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
793.12.10.01

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Etchings England London 1793
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799
Subjects
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1793
England > London > 1793
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
7952263
Object ID (OID)
10957406

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