A true British-tar [graphic]

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Title: A true British-tar [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [28 May 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. May 28th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Abstract: The Duke of Clarence dressed as a rough sailor, stands full-face with folded arms (three-quarter length view only), looking to the right with a belligerent stare. He wears a shapeless hat, a naval coat, striped trousers, a handkerchief knotted round his neck. Etched below the image: "Damn all Bond St Sailors I say, a parcel of smell smocks! they'd sooner creep into a Jordan than face the French! dam me!"
Description: Title etched below image.
Enlarged copy of Naval eloquence, by the same printmaker.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Peter Murray Hill, October 1958;
Extent: 1 print : oval design 26.5 x 20.0 cm, on sheet 34 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816.
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Subject (Topic): Sailors
British
Subjects: Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sailors > British
England > 1795
England > London > 1795
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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