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Info created by William Pyne, scanned by the Library of Congress - uploaded by Fæ
Support as nominator; see this jpeg version if you prefer to use the Commons ZoomViewer. This is a difficult document to digitize due to size (45 inches or 1.14 metres wide) and this is part of the reason for nominating it as an exemplar of the excellent work of the archivists at the Library of Congress in releasing the British Cartoon Prints Collection. Pyne was notable for establishing the Royal Watercolour Society. This cartoon is historically significant as it was made at the time of the Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808) showing stereotypes of the Spanish as expressed by different classes of the British population. It is a rare example of William Pyne's humorous cartoons (the only political cartoon of his that I can find on Commons), the majority of his published work being palace illustrations and British costumes. The digitization shows detail of costumes and characters, sufficient for each to be taken as a separate detailed illustration. The full size image shows natural foxing due to age, and creases from being folded up, which it was designed to do, but these do not detract from the impact or quality of the etchings. The main humour of the text is to poke fun at the Spanish, with the cobbler calling them "fish-eating rascals" and the journalists for the Spanish Gazette having nothing to report (on the left) while the British cryers (on the right) are exhausted from having ten years worth of incidents to report in one day. I would hope that a consequence of bringing attention to this cartoon would be to help improve Wikipedia articles about Pyne, at the moment the article about his life exists only in English and is a stub. -- Fæ (talk) 15:51, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Comment Remember add a short description in image hint look up .tiff|600x300px|SHORT DESCRIPTION]] --Wilfredo R. Rodríguez H. (talk) 16:06, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
- Missed that, added one now. --Fæ (talk) 16:13, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
- Support Obviously. Yann (talk) 16:15, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
- Support high ev --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 17:47, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
- Support Michael Barera (talk) 22:16, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
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