File:Paul Jones shooting a sailor who had attempted to strike his colours in an engagement (BM 1935,0522.1.7).jpg

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Paul Jones shooting a sailor who had attempted to strike his colours in an engagement   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: John Collet

Published by: Carington Bowles
Title
Paul Jones shooting a sailor who had attempted to strike his colours in an engagement
Description
English: The deck of a ship in action. Jones fires a pistol point-blank at a sailor (left) who stands under the striped American flag, one hand raised towards a rope. Other sailors stand round, two wounded men lie on the deck. Jones rests one foot on the body of a dead man, a cutlass is under his left arm, four pistols are stuck in his belt. c.1779
Hand-coloured mezzotint
Depicted people Representation of: John Paul Jones
Date 1779
date QS:P571,+1779-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 347 millimetres
Width: 248 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1935,0522.1.7
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) Probably the incident during the encounter of the 'Bon Homme Richard' with the 'Serapis', when a gunner shouted for quarter till Jones knocked him down with the butt of a pistol. In the manner of history rather than satire, and tending to the glorification of Jones, see BMSat 5559, &c. One of Bowles's series of mezzotints. Also a coloured impression in 'Caricatures', B.M.L., Tab. 524, i, p. 7, from which the publication line has been supplied.

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See also the reduced version: 2010,7081.2004
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-7
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