The Royal George's cruize in the year 2777 with the short sighted cockswain at the helm, Sawney at the cun, and the Devil at the lead [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. by J. Williams bookseller, near the Mitre Tavern Fleet Street
Augt. 9, 1777]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching ; sheet 26 x 36 cm.

Notes:

Title from item.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Alfred Bowditch Collection.
Mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Ownership mark, a rubber-stamped Tudor rose below image on right; pencilled annotations in lower margin.

Abstract:

A satire on governmental policy towards America, depicting the deck of a sailing ship, with George III at the helm between 2 large masts. Behind him is the tartan-clad Earl of Bute, and at the rail the Devil casts the lead, announcing "no bottom." The King is depicted as saying "I trust all to you Sawney for I cannot see twice the length of my nose," while Bute reponds "Steady boy, steady and never fear while I am at the cun & my trusty friend at the lead, my dog vane is infallable." On the right of the print near a mast, a sailor warns another Scotsman that the ship is about to strike "the breakers of America" to which the latter replies "Hold your peace man; my Lord has provided cork jackets for all of his party as soon as this damned ship is wreck'd."

Variant Titles:

Royal George's cruise in the year two thousand seven hundred seventy-seven

Topics:

Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Devil
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Helms
Sailing ships
Sailors

Topics:

Great Britain -- Colonies -- America

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- 1777
Political cartoons -- England -- 1777
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1777

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

777.08.09.02+

Orbis Record:

6663486

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr04219

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10723125

PID:

digcoll:291661