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1. Count de Grasse in the sugar trap [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- May 28th 1782.
- Call Number:
- 782.05.28.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Admiral de Grasse stands up to his waist in a large barrel, saying "I shall never more love the Englishmen's sugar and gunpowder." On the left stands an English naval officer with cutlass in hand, and on the right an English sailor. Refers to De Grass...
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Sold by E. Rich, at the little Print Shop opposite Anderton's Coffee House, Fleet Street and Pubd. by J. Barrow
- Subject (Name):
- Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788
- Subject (Topic):
- Barrels, Admirals, French, Military officers, British, Sailors, and Military uniforms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Count de Grasse in the sugar trap [graphic].
2. Rodney triumphant, or, Admiral lee-shore in the dumps [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [31 May 1782] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 5. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Admiral Rodney is depicted receiving the submission of the defeated De Grasse after the Battle of the Saints, as English sailors bring ashore the spoils of war, and chagrined politicians Fox, Keppel, and the Duke of Richmond look on from the left, wit...
- Alternative Title:
- Admiral lee-shore in the dumps
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 31st, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street, London [i.e. Field & Tuer] and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788, Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Admirals, French, British, Sailors, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Rodney triumphant, or, Admiral lee-shore in the dumps [graphic]
3. Rodney triumphant, or, Admiral lee-shore in the dumps [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [31 May 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.05.31.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Admiral Rodney is depicted receiving the submission of the defeated De Grasse after the Battle of the Saints, as English sailors bring ashore the spoils of war, and chagrined politicians Fox, Keppel, and the Duke of Richmond look on from the left, wit...
- Alternative Title:
- Admiral lee-shore in the dumps
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 31st, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788, Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, History, Naval, Admirals, French, British, Sailors, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Rodney triumphant, or, Admiral lee-shore in the dumps [graphic].