An English Jack-Tar giving Monsieur a Drubbing Hand coloured mezzotint engraving published by Robert Sayer London 1788. Good impression in period ebonised fruitwood frame. 30.5 by 40.6 cms. Overall in frame.
An English sailor in striped trousers beating a foppish Frenchman with his cane, outside an Inn with the sign 'Admiral Keppel' and advertising 'Rodney's Cordial Hood's Intire.' above the door, with a boy laughing at the pleading Frenchman, a pug biting his poodle, his broken swords on the cobbled street, and a couple in the doorway pointing at the ship 'Victory' which lies in the background to right. 1788
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