A true British-tar [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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Title: A true British-tar [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Jordan, Dorothy,--1761-1816.
William--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1765-1837--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created: 1795 May 28
Copyright Date: [28 May 1795]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, No. 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: Enlarged copy of Naval eloquence, by the same printmaker.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; oval design 26.5 x 20.0 cm, on sheet 34 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1795.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1795.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Jordan, Dorothy,--1761-1816.
William--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1765-1837--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic): Sailors--British.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8653
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 121
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 187