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The Englishman in Paris   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Englishman in Paris
Description
English: Three people seated at a round dinner-table. A fourth, an Englishman wearing a hat, stands up gnawing a large bird which he has seized from a dish which a servant (l.) has just brought in. A Frenchman seated at the table wearing an enormous toupet wig from which hangs a grotesquely elaborate queue, holds up his hands in protest; a second Frenchman, sitting with his hands on his knees, looks on in amusement. A lady on the far side of the table, wearing an enormous cap on her pyramid of hair, is drinking wine as she watches the Englishman. On the wall are two pictures: two prize-fighters fighting (l.), and a monk standing outside a church (r.). Beneath the design is engraved:



"An American goose came hot from the spit
Egad says the Englishman I'll have a bit
His jaws he applies with wond'rous speed
To devour the viands on which others shou'd feed.
Fie, fie, Monsr La Anglois [sic] cries the frenchman;- forbear,
Why the limbs of your brother thus furiously tear?
Think you we'll tamely look on and starve?
No, no Monsr Anglois, we wait for to carve." c. 1777-1778


Hand-coloured etching
Date 1778
date QS:P571,+1778-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 256 millimetres
Width: 334 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4562
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) This appears intended to represent the attitude of France towards the American war before the signing of the Treaty on 6 Feb. 1778. See 'Ann. Reg.' 1778, 37-8.

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The address of the publisher (who is recorded as working around 1800) suggests that this might be a reprint of an earlier plate (for which Dorothy George's dating of c.1777/8 seems correct).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4562
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