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James Gillray
1756-1815
A true British-tar / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
hand colored etching
image: 31 x 20 cm; plate: 35.5 x 25.2 cm; sheet: 38.6 x 27 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2858
Published:
[London] : H. Humphrey, 1795.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary:
The Duke of Clarence (three-quarter length), dressed as a rough sailor, stands full-face with folded arms, looking to the right with a belligerent stare. He wears a shapeless hat, a naval coat, striped trousers, a handkerchief knotted round his neck. He says: "Damn all Bond St Sailors I say, a parcel of smell smocks! they'd sooner creep into a Jordan than face the French! dam me!"
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