File:An extraordinary gazette, or the disapointed politicians. (BM 1868,0808.4584).jpg
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[edit]An extraordinary gazette, or the disapointed politicians. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
An extraordinary gazette, or the disapointed politicians. |
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Description |
English: A number of men sit and stand round a table in some coffee-house or club, smoking, reading, and drinking. A man in spectacles reads in the "Gazette" a dispatch signed "Clin[ton]"; another looks over his shoulder with an expression of satisfaction. A military officer tears a paper to pieces in disgust, on it is a row of ciphers. On the edge of the table is a paper inscribed "Gazzette extroy 1710. We have gain'd a battle & hav[e] the French General in my coach. Marlborough". (Apparently an allusion to Blenheim 1704.)
Etching with partial mezzotint |
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Depicted people | Representation of: George III, King of the United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
circa 1778 date QS:P571,+1778-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.4584 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) This appears to represent the 'Gazette Extraordinary' of 24 Aug. 1778 which contained Clinton's dispatch of 6 July, relating his encounter with Washington and Lafayette on 28 June at Freehold or Monmouth on the retreat after his evacuation of Philadelphia. Both Clinton and the Americans represented the affair as a victory, see 'Gazette', loc. cit., and 'Ann. Reg.' 1778, p. 225*. 'All in the Wrong' was a popular comedy by Murphy, first played in 1761; Thomas King the actor (1730-1805) was in 1778 at the height of his fame, though here George III is clearly indicated. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4584 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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