The French spy taken prisoner by English girls [graphic].

Description

Title: The French spy taken prisoner by English girls [graphic].
Creator: Colley, Thomas, active 1780-1783, printmaker
Contributor: Field & Tuer, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1868?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Field & Tuer
Abstract: "Satire: a thin Frenchman kneels beseechingly while five women pull his pigtail, pinch his nose and threaten him with a mop."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Thomas Colley in the British Museum online catalogue.
Restrike, with imprint statement mostly burnished from plate. For an earlier issue of the plate, published in 1781, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,0514.18.
Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]
On leaf 45 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Provenance: Gift of Addison Van Name to Yale University Library, 1919. Transferred from Yale University Library; November 1967.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 59 x 43 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title: Leaf 45. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Collection/Other Creator: Tuer, Andrew White, 1838-1900, collector.
Collection Date: [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1781
Etchings England London 1868
Engravings England London 1868
Restrikes
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): France.
Subject (Name): De la Motte, Francis Henry, -1781
Subject (Topic): Spies
Women
Mops & mopsticks
Pails
Dogs
Subjects: De la Motte, Francis Henry, -1781 > Caricatures and cartoons
Spies > France
Women
Mops & mopsticks
Pails
Dogs
England > 1781
England > London > 1868

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