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- Title:
- The Invasion, Plate 1: France
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1756
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 3/4 × 15 5/8 inches (32.4 × 39.7 cm), Image: 11 1/2 × 14 7/8 inches (29.2 × 37.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered above image, upper center: "FRANCE. Plate 1st."; upper left: "Design'd & Etch'd by Wm. Hogarth"; upper right: "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament March 8th. 1756."; inside image, upper center: "Soup Meagre | a la | Sabot Royal"; center right: "VENGENCE et | le Bon Bier et | Bon Beuf de | Angletere"; lower left: "Plan pour un | Monastere dans | Black Friars a | Londre."; lower left: "St. Antoni"; below image, lower center: "With lanthern jaws and croaking Gut, | See how the half-starv'd Frenchment Strut, | And call us English Dogs! | But soon we'll teach these brag^ging Foes, | That Beef & Beer give heavier Blows, | Than Soup & Roasted Frogs. | The Priests inflam'd with righteous hopes, | Prepare their Axes, Wheels & Ropes, | To bend the Stiff neck't Sinner; | But should they sink in coming over, | Old Nick may fish 'twixt France & Dover | And catch a glorious Dinner.!"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1446
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42051
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Douglas Fordham, British art and the Seven Years' War, allegiance and autonomy , University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2010, pp. 72-75, fig. 21, N72.P6 F66 2010 (YCBA) [YCBA]