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The English Sloop engaging a Dutch Man of War   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Published by: Carington Bowles

After: Robert Dighton
Title
The English Sloop engaging a Dutch Man of War
Description
English: A Dutchman (left), smoking a short pipe, hands in his pockets, is being chucked under the chin by a gaily dressed courtesan (right), her left hand on her hip. He wears the round hat and baggy breeches of the Dutchman in caricature. Both stand full-face, each looks towards the other.


The background is formed by the lower part of houses in Covent Garden showing the arcade of the Piazza, a sedan chair (right) stands under an arch. Immediately behind the two figures are vegetables and baskets. 1781


Hand-coloured mezzotint
Date 1781
date QS:P571,+1781-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 355 millimetres
Width: 253 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
2010,7081.1006
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) Reproduced, C. N. Robinson, 'The British Tar in Fact and Fiction', 1909, p. 166.

(Supplementary information) Dighton's original watercolour for this print from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose was sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 91.

See also 2010,7081.1004 and 1005, related satires, and the reduced version: 2010,7081.1768
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2010-7081-1006
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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