The triumphant Britons [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. March 8th, 1780, by H. Humphrey, New Bond St
[8 March 1780]

Copyright Date:

[8 March 1780]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 34 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5646
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 30

Notes:

Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.

Abstract:

"A bayonet charge of British soldiers (right) against Spaniards and Frenchmen (left). The Spaniards, wearing feathered hats, are fleeing unarmed. A thin Frenchman dressed as a petit-maitre staggers back in alarm, his arms outstretched, one hand on the shoulder of an equally terrified Spaniard. A Spaniard in cloak and slashed doublet has fallen to the ground and tries to shelter behind the Frenchman; coins apparently from his pockets lie on the ground beside him. The British advancing with bayonets are led by an officer who holds a sword raised to strike; a soldier holds a British flag."--British Museum online catalogue.

Associated Names:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817 [Publisher]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Clothing & dress -- 1780
Harvey, Francis
Military standards -- British
Riviere & Son
Soldiers -- British

Topics:

Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1760-1789

Language:

English

Genre:

Aquatints -- England -- London -- 1780
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1780
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1780

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

780.03.08.01+

Orbis Record:

6746098

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr04573

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10723382

PID:

digcoll:552287