The Gig,British Sailors,Rodney,Top,Dutchman,American Revolution,Smoking Pipe

Title: The gig / Wells del.
Date Created/Published: London : Pub. by W. Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street, 1781 May 8.
Summary: Print shows two British sailors waving banners labeled 'Rodney,' one smokes a long clay pipe, between them is a Dutchman, his hands behind his back, sitting in the bottom portion of a toy top, he says, 'Mine head be very giddy indeed.'
Notes:
Title from item.
Includes six stanzas of verse for the 'Tune Patriot Fair' printed from separate plate below illustration.
Paper has vertical watermark at center: crest or shield below fleur-de-lis.
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 790.
Subjects:
International relations--Netherlands--1780-1790.
Tops (Toys)--1780-1790.
Sailors--British--1780-1790.
Songs--1780-1790.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1780-1790.
Etchings--British--1780-1790.
Bookmark /2004673409/
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