File:Liett gover Gallston's monkey breaking of Sir Sydney's ape (BM 1851,0901.1363).jpg

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Liett gover Gallston's monkey breaking of Sir Sydney's ape   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Liett gover Gallston's monkey breaking of Sir Sydney's ape
Description
English: A monkey-like postillion, resembling 'Jackoo' in BMSat 7721, rides (right to left) a baboon with a human head which is turned full face. The postillion flourishes his whip above his head with an air of triumph, and holds up in his left hand a bottle labelled 'Laudanum, or the Preservation of Life - prepared by Lieut Genl jackoo, Spanish posttilion to Dr Viper - O Death where is thy Sting?" From each coat-pocket protrudes a bottle labelled 'Extract of Hellebore and Extract of Hemlock'. The scene is the sea-shore with three men-of-war, two being in action; the third flies a British flag. On the right is a low thatched hut in which sit two apes with tails, but wearing mob caps, one weeps, the other holds her by the shoulders as if to comfort her. 1790
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Philip Thicknesse
Date circa 1790
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 234 millimetres
Width: 325 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.1363
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) An attack on Philip Thicknesse, see BMSat 7721, &c. The allusion to 'Sir Sydney's Ape' is obscure. For 'Jocko', Thicknesse's monkey postillion, see BMSat 7721. As a remedy for gall-stone Thicknesse recommended ('inter alia') 'a free use of laudanum, twenty, thirty or forty drops, . . .' 'Memoirs', 1788, i. 161. The black creatures in the hut are probably a comment on Thicknesse's remarks on negroes (apropos the anti-slavery movement): Their face is scarce what we call human, their legs . . ., and their broad flat foot, and long toes . . . have much the resemblance of the Ourang Outang, or Jocko, and other quadrupeds of their own climates. . . .' 'Journey Through France . . .', 1789, ii. 102. ...................................................

Tim Clayton (personal communication) has identified 'Sir Sydney' as the riding master Sir Sidney Medows, and his 'Ape' as John Crookshanks (see also BM Satires 7733)
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-1363
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