Dun-Shaw : "One Foot in Leadenhall Street, & the other in the Province of Bengal," Vide Mr D------s speech.
[London] : Pubd March 7th 1788, by S.W. Fores N. 3 Piccadilly, [1788]
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Dundas as a colossus (a shah or bashaw of the Indies) straddles across the ocean, one foot on the roof of the India House (left), the other on a piece of land on the extreme right representing Bengal. In the sea below his outstretched legs are several ships in full sail making for Bengal; the nearest is inscribed 'troops'. Dundas wears a turban and crown, a cloak and oriental tunic with a kilt, bare knees and tartan stockings. His turban is inscribed 'Charged Mr F-- with a design to shift the Crown from the Monarch's to his own head. Mr D speech'. His arms are extended above his head pointing to, and nearly grasping, a sun in the upper left corner of the design and to a crescent moon in the upper right corner. Both have faces which look down with dismayed surprise at Dundas. Cf. British Museum online catalogue.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.