- Title:
- The Thunderer. Vide; Every Man in His Humour, Alter'd From Ben John
- Date:
- 1782
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 1/4 x 8 7/8in. (31.1 x 22.5cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper left: "'I'd as lief as twenty Crowns I could talk as fine as you capt. <coll.>'"; upper center: "'They have assaulted me some Three, Four, Five, Six of them together, & I have | driven them afore like a flock of Sheep; but this is nothing, for often | in a mere frolic I have challeng'd Twenty of them, kill'd them; | challeng'd Twenty more, kill'd them; Twenty more kill'd | them too; & thus in a day I have kill'd Twenty Score; | twenty score, That's two hundred; two hundred a day, five days a thousand; thats a zounds, I can't number them | half; & all civilly & fairly with this one poor toledo!'"; upper right: "This is the Lad'll kiss most sweet, | Who'd not love a Soldier?'"; center right: "The Whirligig. | Alamode Beef, hot every Night."; lettered below image, lower left: "Pubd. Augt 20th, 1782 by Eh. D'Achery St. James's Street."; lower center: "The Thunderer. Vide; Every Man is his Humour, alter'd from Ben Johnson."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1067
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- caricature | caricatures | satire
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, The Thunderer. Vide; Every Man in His Humour, Alter'd From Ben John, 1782
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