Accession number
PML 146852.26
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London] : Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, March 8, 1756.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
12 lines of verse by David Garrick beginning: With lanthern jaws, and croaking Gut, / See how the half-starv'd Frenchmen Strut ... Old Nick may fish twixt France & Dover / And catch a glorious Dinner!
"Publish'd according to Act of Parliament March 8th. 1756".
Companion print to Hogarth's "England : plate 2d"; the pair of prints also known by the collective title "The invasion". Cf. Paulson.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146852) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
12 lines of verse by David Garrick beginning: With lanthern jaws, and croaking Gut, / See how the half-starv'd Frenchmen Strut ... Old Nick may fish twixt France & Dover / And catch a glorious Dinner!
"Publish'd according to Act of Parliament March 8th. 1756".
Companion print to Hogarth's "England : plate 2d"; the pair of prints also known by the collective title "The invasion". Cf. Paulson.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146852) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Description
1 print : etching & engraving ; image: 290 x 376 mm; plate mark: 319 x 389 mm; sheet: 455 x 625 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed "JT" in pen at lower right.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a scene beside a tavern ("La Sabot Royal") on the coast of France with a group of emaciated soldiers preparing to set sail for England; a soldier is roasting frogs over a fire on the blade of his sword and a monk is feeling the edge of an axe which he is putting on to a horse-drawn sledge laden with instruments of torture, a figure of St Antony and a plan for a monastery at Blackfriars; in the distance soldiers are being forced on board a ship and beyond women are ploughing a field.
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