Fatigues of the campaign in Flanders / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Fatigues of the campaign in Flanders / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
hand colored etching
image: 34.8 x 50.1 cm; plate: 35 x 50.5 cm; sheet: 36.5 x 52 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2822
Published: 
[London] : H. Humphrey, 1793.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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A staff dinner in a large open tent. At the head of the table the Duke of York carouses; a fat Flemish woman seated on his knee plays with his sword; he raises a full glass, looking down at the woman. He is seated on a drum, his left foot rests on a tattered British flag, beside which lies a bundle of muskets. On the table is a punchbowl ornamented with the royal arms. On one side (next the Duke) sits the Prince of Orange, a fat and stolid Dutch officer smoking a pipe and holding a small tankard. Facing him is a savage-looking (?) Prussian officer wearing a cap; his drawn sabre is on the table, he drinks wine voraciously from a bottle, his left arm round the waist of a stout Flemish woman seated beside him on the cannon which forms a seat; she raises her glass, holding a smoking pipe.

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