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[edit]The True British Tar
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Published by: Carington Bowles
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The True British Tar |
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English: A sailor (left), who looks with a grin towards the spectator, sits on a corded sea-chest pointing at his prize-money which is heaped up on a larger chest in front of him. He is gaily dressed, wearing a hat with a ribbon favour, long pig-tail, striped trousers; a bunch of seals dangles from his waistcoat. His smoking pipe lies on the ground behind him. In his right hand is a sheaf of papers inscribed 'List of Prizes taken at the [ ?] Huntinna St Eustatia'. Five money-sacks stand on the chest, three being inscribed respectively '£10,000', 'Spanish Dollars', and '£5,000'; a sixth lies open with coins issuing from it. Four wine-bottles, one labelled 'Made[ira]', and a glass also stand on the chest. Through an open sash-window is seen a man-of-war whose sails are being lowered. On the wall (left) behind the sailor's head is a ballad headed by an oval bust portrait of George III and the words 'God save the King'; below the verses is a crown. Beneath the design is engraved:
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| Date | 1785 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prints and Drawings |
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2010,7081.1383 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) For the capture of St. Eustatius see BMSat 5842, &c. Cf. BMSat 4496, a similar subject. Reproduced, C. N. Robinson, 'The British Tar in Fact and Fiction', 1909, p. 318. (Supplementary information) Dighton's original watercolour for this print from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose was sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 94. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2010-7081-1383 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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