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Dun-Shaw : "One Foot in Leadenhall Street, & the other in the Province of Bengal," Vide Mr D------s speech.

James Gillray
1756-1815

Dun-Shaw : "One Foot in Leadenhall Street, & the other in the Province of Bengal," Vide Mr D------s speech.

Published

[London] : Pubd March 7th 1788, by S.W. Fores N. 3 Piccadilly, [1788]

etching, hand colored
image: 398 x 260 mm; sheet: 412 x 268 mm
Peel 2592
Notes
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

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.

Associated names
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints