Cartoon, British Tars, towing the Danish Fleet into Harbour
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Cartoon, British Tars, towing the Danish Fleet into Harbour
Cartoon, British Tars, towing the Danish Fleet into Harbour; the Broadbottom Leviathan trying to swamp Billys old Boat, & the little Corsican tottering on the Clouds of Ambition, by James Gillray. Showing outgoing coalition ministers spouting water ineffectively at a boat named the Billy Pitt (after the former Prime Minister). John Bull sits outside a pub named The Good Old Royal George and shout Rule Britannia. A small Napoleon up in the sky looks on in consternation. The three sailors are Hawkesbury, Castlereagh and Canning, who have replaced the former ministers. The cartoon is a comment on an international power struggle and an invasion plot which was foiled. Date: 1807
Media ID 14230319
© The Sharp Illustration Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
1800s 1807 Ambition Attack Billy Britannia Bull Clouds Coalition Comment Corsican Criticism Danger Danish Gillray Good Harsh Hero Heroes Heroic Leviathan Ministers Pitt Rule Satire Satirical Sheerness Shout Shouting Spouting Swamp Towing Whale
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