File:The thunderer. (BM 1868,0808.4874).jpg
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editThe thunderer. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
Print made by: James Gillray
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Title |
The thunderer. |
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Description |
English: Colonel Tarleton as Bobadil stands holding out a drawn sword, his left hand on his hip boasting of his valour. His plumed helmet caricatures that in Reynolds's well-known portrait of Tarleton. On his right, behind his sword-arm, stands the Prince of Wales, with a plume of three ostrich feathers in place of a head, the centre feather having some resemblance to a face. He wears the garter ribbon, and very wide and wrinkled top-boots with small pointed feet; in his left hand is a riding-whip.
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Depicted people | Representation of: George IV, King of the United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1782 date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.4874 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) For the whirligig, a punishment for army prostitutes, see 'Johnson's England', ed. A. S. Turberville, p. 72. Tarleton was very brave, and distinguished himself in the American War (though defeated at Cowpens), but was notoriously boastful. Mrs. Robinson (Perdita) lived with him after she had been deserted by the Prince of Wales. See BMSat 6085, 6221. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 41. Wright and Evans, No. 378. (Both identify Bobadil with Major Topham.) |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4874 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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