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French Privateers, cruising in the English Channel   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton

Published by: Carington Bowles
Title
French Privateers, cruising in the English Channel
Description
English: Six French émigrés are grouped at the roadside beside a signpost (right) pointing (left) to 'London' and (right) to 'Dover'. A lean and elderly woman holding a clipped poodle stands with her left hand in the arm of a man wearing a cocked hat with a tricolour cockade, and a long coat reaching almost to his ankles; he holds a tasselled cane. Next him is a stout man wearing a long cloak, and a boy or dwarfish man. On the right are two women holding large muffs. A second clipped poodle runs beside them. In the background a coach (right) inscribed 'London Dover Canterbury' is driving towards London with outside passengers; one, a sailor, waves his hat. The gable end of a cottage (left) and trees complete the background; republished state. 4 June 1792
Hand-coloured mezzotint
Date 1792
date QS:P571,+1792-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 357 millimetres
Width: 249 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1935,0522.1.25
Notes

Dighton's original watercolour for this print from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose was sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 34.

An earlier state was published by Carington Bowles, with the same inscription but 'Carington Bowles' in place of 'Bowles & Carver' (2010,7081.1079)
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-25
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