- Title:
- The Caneing in Conduit Street - Dedicated to the Flag Officers of the British Navy
- Date:
- 1796
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching with hand coloring in watercolor
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 3/16 x 13 1/8in. (23.3 x 33.3cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper center: "Give me Satisfaction, Rascal! draw your Sword, Coward! what, you won't? why then take that, Lubber! & that! & that! & that! | Murder! Murder! Watch! Constable! keep him off Brother! while I run to my Lord - Chancellor for protection! Murder! Murder! Murder"; upper right: "The South - Sea - Fur - Warehouse from China | Fine Black Otter Skins | No Contraband Goods sold here"; center: "Cha Rearcovers Letter to be - publish'd after the Parties are bound to keep ye Peace | This Present from the King of Owyhee to George III forgot to be delivered"; lower center: "List of those disgraced during the voyage - put under Arrest all the Ships Crew - Put into Irons, every Gentleman on Board - Broke every Man of Honor & Spirit - Promoted Spies | Every officer is the Guardian of his own Honor. | Lord Grenvills Letter"; lower right: "For the NAVY"; lettered below image: "Th CANEING in Conduit Street. Dedicated to the Flag officers of the British Navy. | Pub'd Oct. 1st 1796 by H. Humphrey Weed Bond Street"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.881
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:43670
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James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, The Caneing in Conduit Street - Dedicated to the Flag Officers of the British Navy, 1796
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