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English cavalry asses. Commanded by General Pell Mell oh!!!   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Published by: Thomas McLean

Printed by: A Ducôte
Title
English cavalry asses. Commanded by General Pell Mell oh!!!
Description
English: Below the title: 'or Here are Ticks [Heretics] Done Brown by Done ['Don' in large, 'e' in small script] Pedro'. Above the design, 'Oporto'. Four British officers, ragged and emaciated, mounted on asses, are in an open space between a baker's shop (left) and a convent. They are numbered 1 to 4, and are trying to extract bread from the baker, who regards them truculently over the closed half-door of his shop, which is protected by a striped awning. Above the door: 'Don Brown, Baker. Tick here on Good Security'. The foremost, '1', holding out a bunch of notes, says 'Here are ticks can we have bread'. Baker: 'What security can you give for Payment'. Officer number '2': 'Don Pedro's Bonds'. Baker: 'That wont do they have been bonde[a]d a long time'. The fourth officer, '4', mops his face with a ragged handkerchief, saying, 'Pugh How hot it is! I wish I was at home still in the Old Buffs instead of the new Browns as Half-Pay is better than no pay at all'. The third, '3', a hussar, turns silently away with a gesture of angry despair. Two nuns look from the open convent window; one, who is young, pretty, alluring, and coquettishly dressed, says: 'What funny English Officers how they are Sunburnt'. The other, plump and middle-aged, answers: 'They are not so grace-full as those who were in Portugal under his Grace the Duke of Wellington'. In a gap between the foreground buildings bombs are bursting near the gable-end of a Gothic church. 17 October 1832
Hand-coloured lithograph
Depicted people Associated with: Pedro de Sousa Holstein, Duke of Palmela
Date 1832
date QS:P571,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 285 millimetres
Width: 373 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1868,0808.9446
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(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)

A satire on the treatment of the English volunteer officers, who, despite the foreign enlistment Act, joined Dom Pedro in the Portuguese civil war, see No. 17179, &c., and gave him valuable aid. Count Palmella, see No. 15893, was Pedro's chief supporter. The Miguelites besieged Oporto from July 1832 to July 1833. For Portuguese bonds cf. No. 15893.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-9446
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