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1. National discourse [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [9 August 1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.08.09.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A British and a French sailor addressing one another. The British sailor stands full-face, a club in his right hand, his left hand on his hip. He wears a crowned hat, a handkerchief knotted round his neck, and wide, knee-length trousers. He scowls threateningly. The Frenchman, very thin, stands facing him, in profile to the left; he grins, saying "Ha! Ha! we beata You": the Englishman answers "you Lie". The Frenchman wears a feathered hat, ruffled shirt, long trousers, and a cutlass. His hair is in a very long pigtail queue, tied with a bow of ribbon. In the background a naval battle is indicated by ships and clouds of smoke slightly sketched. Cf. BMSat 5674."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item. and Possibly by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Augt. 9th, 1780, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Sailors, British, French, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > National discourse [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, with Sandwich and North behind them. Contrasts the new ministry's hostility to the popular Rodney with the rewarding of the incompetent Keppel (Admiral "Lee-shore.").
- Alternative Title:
- Admiral lee-shore in the dumps
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 5992 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], "Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. 3"--On left above design., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 36., and On leaf 5 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- 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, with Sandwich and North behind them. Contrasts the new ministry's hostility to the popular Rodney with the rewarding of the incompetent Keppel (Admiral "Lee-shore.").
- Alternative Title:
- Admiral lee-shore in the dumps
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and On left above design: Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. 3.
- 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].
