The whiskers, or, Sr Jno Sucklings bugg-a-bohs 1757 [engraving]
1757
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
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Title
The whiskers, or, Sr Jno Sucklings bugg-a-bohs 1757 [engraving]
Published
[London] To be had at the Acorn, Strand [Sept. 1757]
Description
1 engraving : ill. ; 19 x 34 cm. on a sheet 47 x 30 cm.
Call Number
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
Note
Imprint date from pencilled notation at foot of engraving.
The artist may have been Matthew Darly, who was an etcher, drawing master and print-seller, as well as a designer of caricatures -- cf. M. Dorothy George. English political caricature to 1792, p. [225]. Note the Acorn in the Strand is the sign of Edwards & Darly.
In pencil below the engraving: The Rochefort expedition of 1757. The siege of Rochefort was ordered by William Pitt, as Secretary of State, to lift public spirits in the aftermath of the execution of Admiral Byng.
A naval officer with spyglass [Byng? Mordaunt?] misidentifies as Swiss guards women pointing their naked rears seaward from the foot of an island fort flying the flag "Terrible": "I know them by their broad faces & their whiskers." A pinnace nearby the ship is labelled "Grape shot that made Sr. John Suckling B_e himself."
The subject of the satire is unclear. Sir John Suckling (bap. 1609, d. 1641?) was a poet and "gentleman officer (Oxford DNB).He raised a troop of a hundred horse, at a cost of £12,000, and accompanied Charles on the Scottish expedition of 1639. He shared in the earl of Holland's retreat before Duns, and was lampooned in the popular press and in Musarum deliciae, "on Sir John Suckling's most warlike preparations for the Scottish war." Notations beneath the engraved ship: Sir Thomas Mordaunt [and] Byng before Minorca. Mordaunt commanded the unsuccessful raid on Rochefort which earned him the censure of a military court of inquiry; Byng's unsuccesful raid on Minorca cost him his life.
On leaf 119v of The tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757
The artist may have been Matthew Darly, who was an etcher, drawing master and print-seller, as well as a designer of caricatures -- cf. M. Dorothy George. English political caricature to 1792, p. [225]. Note the Acorn in the Strand is the sign of Edwards & Darly.
In pencil below the engraving: The Rochefort expedition of 1757. The siege of Rochefort was ordered by William Pitt, as Secretary of State, to lift public spirits in the aftermath of the execution of Admiral Byng.
A naval officer with spyglass [Byng? Mordaunt?] misidentifies as Swiss guards women pointing their naked rears seaward from the foot of an island fort flying the flag "Terrible": "I know them by their broad faces & their whiskers." A pinnace nearby the ship is labelled "Grape shot that made Sr. John Suckling B_e himself."
The subject of the satire is unclear. Sir John Suckling (bap. 1609, d. 1641?) was a poet and "gentleman officer (Oxford DNB).He raised a troop of a hundred horse, at a cost of £12,000, and accompanied Charles on the Scottish expedition of 1639. He shared in the earl of Holland's retreat before Duns, and was lampooned in the popular press and in Musarum deliciae, "on Sir John Suckling's most warlike preparations for the Scottish war." Notations beneath the engraved ship: Sir Thomas Mordaunt [and] Byng before Minorca. Mordaunt commanded the unsuccessful raid on Rochefort which earned him the censure of a military court of inquiry; Byng's unsuccesful raid on Minorca cost him his life.
On leaf 119v of The tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757
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