print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.4688
- Title
- Object: The contrast
- Description
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An enormously fat English naval officer (left) and a very lean French one, face one another. Beneath the former is inscribed "England", beneath the latter, "France". England wears a laced hat, the cockade at the back, a coat with facings and epaulettes, buckled shoes. France wears a feathered hat, a long pigtail queue, ruffled shirt, a cross hanging from his shirt-front, a fleur-de-lys on his shoulder; his spindle legs are in spurred jack-boots. He says, "We beat you every battle". England answers, "you Lie." 27 May 1780
Etching
- Production date
- 1780
- Dimensions
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Height: 251 millimetres
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Width: 352 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)
Perhaps an allusion to the indecisive action between Rodney and de Guichen on 17 Apr. 1780 in the West Indies. Cf. BMSat 5695.
A note by Mr. Hawkins states that this was reissued by Holland.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.4688
