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Navy Victualler and Contractors reading the Extraordinary Gazette announcing the Spanish Convention   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Navy Victualler and Contractors reading the Extraordinary Gazette announcing the Spanish Convention
Description
English: A man seated behind a rectangular table holds a paper: 'Extraordinary Gazette Convention'; he looks up with an expression of dismay, saying, "Oh! Dam the Dons! if they keep their Word what am I to do with my Oxen". On the table, which is in reversed perspective, are two tea-cups, an overturned tumbler, and papers: 'Mayor['s] Letter'; 'Oracle'; 'The World' [ministerial newspapers, cf. BMSat 7369, &c.]. The title is etched on the vertical front of the table-cloth. Two stout men (left) standing together in profile to the right, equally dismayed, answer respectively, "Your Oxen! (fatten them for Market) what are we to do with our Biscuits? and We shant have one broke, if we are not to crack the Spaniards crowns, no, not one, dam it." The first is Alderman William Curtis, the other (who resembles him) is probably his elder brother and partner Timothy; they were (ship's) biscuit-bakers at Wapping, cf. BMSat 8075. A thin man with a wooden leg (Brook Watson) stands (right), his hands held out, face upturned, exclaiming, "Convention! Dam the Convention! but a little time back amused with a Dutch Squabble, now tantalized with a Spanish Rupture - Oh! curse it! are we never to have a War?" c.October 1790
Etching with hand-colouring
Depicted people Associated with: Timothy Curtis
Date 1790
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 172 millimetres
Width: 272 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5968
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

A satire on war profiteers and on the Convention signed by Spain on 28 Oct., see BMSat 7687, &c.; for the Curtises cf. BMSat 8059. Brook Watson had held the lucrative post of Commissary-General during the American War (cf. BMSat 6965) and was to hold it again. William Curtis (a Pittite) was returned for the City in 1790, see BMSat 7682. He became a stock subject of ridicule.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5968
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