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Title
Prospect of a truce
Description
English: 'Carlton House Magazine', ii. 305. A reissue of the left part of BMSat 7561, showing the man with a flag of Truce on the battlements of the stage-Bastille, holding out a cloth inscribed 'D------n you what do you want'. On the left is a knock-kneed soldier holding a white cloth. The toy cannon is visible on the right. The text describes it as 'a hierogliphical Representation of the Times . . . Like too many of our late schemes and expeditions, it is incomprehensible to every sensible observer . . .'. 1 October 1795
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Date 1795
date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 172 millimetres
Width: 120 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5892
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Perhaps an allusion to the disastrous expedition to Quiberon, see BMSat 8669, &c.

The other part of the original design is BMSat 8473.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5892
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