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Evacuation of Malta

Maker

(artist)
1757-1815

(engraver)
1757-1815

(publisher)
(active 1778-1822) (Life dates)

Title

Evacuation of Malta

Date of Production

9.2.1803

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 26 cm
Width: 36.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4367

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper left within image & recto : in speech bubble : All! all! -- you, Jean F_t_e! / and think yourself well off / that I leave you / Great Britain!!! //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper centre within image & recto : in speech bubble : Pray do not insist upon Malta! / I shall certainly be turned out! / and I have got a great many Cousins, / and Uncles, [ampersand] Aunts to provide for yet! //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper right within image & recto : on speech bubble : My General, you had better / not get him turned out- for / we shall not be able to humbug them any more //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right within image & recto : on various pieces of excrement in hat : MALTA / EGYPT / St. Domingo / Cape of / Good Hope / Guadaloup / Martiniq //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right margin & recto : : Pubd. Feby 9th. 1803. by H. Humphrey St. James Street 42 //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre margin & recto : : EVACUATION OF MALTA. //

Inscription: inscription : stamped : right & verso : later Witt inscription : WITT / LIBRARY //

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