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1. The Convention of Cintra a Portuguese gambol for the amusement of Iohn Bull / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 February 1809]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
- Collection Title:
- V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A sequence of seven designs of unequal size, divided by lines and arranged in two rows, four above and three below. The inscriptions parody 'The House that Jack built', cf. (e.g.) British Museum Satires No. 11414. [1] This is the City of Lisbon. A view of Lisbon with the Tagus in the foreground. [2] This is the Gold, that lay in the City of Lisbon. Four sacks heaped with coins, church plate, rosaries, &c. [3] These are the French who took the Gold, [. . . &c.]. Two French officers standing together, registering sly satisfaction. [4] This is Sir Arthur (whose Valour and skill, began so well, but ended so ill) who beat the French, [. . . &c.]. Wellesley stands in the foreground with drawn sword directing the battle; British soldiers pursue French troops. [5] This is the Convention that Nobody owns, that saved old Junots Baggage and Bones, altho' Sir Arthur [. . . &c.]. Junot sits complacently (right) while Wellesley signs the Convention, and Dalrymple and Burrard (not characterized) wait their turn. [6] These are the Ships that carried the spoil, that the French had plundered with so much toil, after the Convention which nobody [.. . &c.]. British men-of-war in full sail. [7] This is John Bull, in great dismay, at the sight of the Ships, which carried away, the gold and silver and all the spoil, the French [. . . &c.]. John, a fat 'cit', in profile to the left in his arm-chair, scowls with protruding underlip."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "270" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., For a variant state lacking plate number, see no. 11215 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 49 in volume 4.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 3d, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Junot, Jean Andoche, duc d'Abrantès, 1771-1813, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Dalrymple, Hew Whiteford, Sir, 1750-1830
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Convention of Cintra a Portuguese gambol for the amusement of Iohn Bull / [graphic]