File:Uncle Toby retired into his centry box. (BM J,2.98).jpg

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Uncle Toby retired into his centry box.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Uncle Toby retired into his centry box.
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English: A sequel to BMSat 6921, apparently by a different artist. The Duke of Richmond sits in his sentry-box (left) looking with a melancholy expression and outstretched left hand towards miniature fortifications at his feet, against which other and more permanent fortifications are directing their fire: cannons in the embrasures of castellated buildings. His left foot rests on miniature sacks, a spade and grenade lie at his feet. On the extreme left is a miniature cannon inscribed 'Ratio Ultima Regum'. Inside the sentry-box (which resembles a garden-latrine) a print of men-of-war is pasted upside down, implying that Richmond's scheme removed the Navy from its function of the first line of defence. In his right hand he holds a 'Gazette', on which the script is illegible except for the figures '170/169', the votes (including that of the Speaker, see BMSat 6919), by which his scheme had been defeated. 'Parl. Hist.', xxv. 1156. In the background is a dense mass of foliage, showing the small scale of all the fortifications. For Richmond's scheme and its defeat see BMSat 6921, &c. 13 March 1786
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 392 millimetres
Width: 274 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,2.98
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-2-98
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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