TITLE: The gig / Wells del. CALL NUMBER: PC 3 - 1781--Gig (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-45476 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. 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." MEDIUM: 1 print : etching. CREATED/PUBLISHED: London : Pub. by W. Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street, 1781 May 8. 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. DLC. 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. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1780-1790.Etchings British 1780-1790. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a45671 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a45671 CONTROL #: 2004673409
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