File:Opening the sluces or Hollands last shift (BM 1868,0808.6368).jpg

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Opening the sluces or Hollands last shift   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank

Published by: James Aitken
Title
Opening the sluces or Hollands last shift
Description
English: A line of buxom Flemish women recedes in perspective diagonally from left to right across the design, forming the edge of a sheet of water through which French soldiers advance, some aiming their muskets. Copious streams issue from the bared posteriors of the women, producing the water which checks the French advance. In the foreground is a group of three, at the near end of the line: a stout Dutchman (also urinating), in profile to the right, holds a large bottle of 'Gin', to which a stooping woman puts her mouth. Next her a woman facing the water turns her head to the left. The man is smoking hard, a second pipe is thrust through his hat-band. The women are typical Flemings, wearing wide-brimmed hats over lace caps, with necklaces and ear-rings. 24 October 1794.
Hand-coloured etching
Date 1794
date QS:P571,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 247 millimetres
Width: 350 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6368
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

After Fleurus (25 June) the Austrians retreated, leaving the British flank bare and forcing the Duke of York to evacuate Antwerp (July) and retire across the Dutch frontier. The Dutch, influenced by the Patriots (cf. BMSat 7172, &c), made little attempt at defence and even obstructed the efforts of the British. Eventually the frost neutralized the naturally strong defences, the French crossed the Waal on 14 Jan. 1795, and the hostility of the Dutch, including Orangists, to the English, facilitated the conquest. Fortescue, 'Hist. of the British Army', iv. 300 ff.; Rose, 'Pitt and the Great War', pp. 213-16. See BMSat 8608, &c. Cf. BMSats 8299, 8327, 8496, &c, 9421.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6368
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