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Print made by: John Cawse (attributed)

Published by: S W Fores
Title
Opening the Sluices or the Secret Expedition
Description
English: Three fat Dutch fishwives, wearing broad-brimmed straw hats, fill the upper and greater part of the design; one, smoking a pipe, is in back view. They urinate contemptuously, as do frogs at their feet, forming a flood in which, in the foreground, British soldiers are drowning. Four of these say, respectively: "Egad this is Giving us a devilish cool reception"; "Curse these stinking Dykes We shall all be Suffocated"; "What a Smell of Stale Fish"; "Its like all thier mad schemes. Come to nothing at last." October 1799
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Date 1799
date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Height: 375 millimetres
Width: 252 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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1868,0808.6839
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

On 18 Oct. a capitulation was agreed to for the cessation of hostilities, the evacuation of Holland by the British by 30 Nov., the return of 8,000 prisoners from England, and the retention of the Dutch fleet. The expedition was ill conceived and dogged by bad luck. Fortescue, 'Hist. of the British Army', iv. 2, pp. 700 ff. For the cabinet's decision to recall the expedition, see Portland to Cornwallis, 14 Oct. 'Cornwallis Corr.' iii. 136 f. For the term 'secret' cf. Sheridan: 'Secret, indeed, it was called, till the term became absolutely ridiculous. Never was an undertaking conducted with such ostentatious mystery - never did the object of a secret expedition obtain such universal notoriety.' 'Parl. Hist.' xxxiv. 1398 (10 Feb. 1800). See BMSat 9412, &c. Cf. BMSat 8493.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6839
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