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In this print, a sailor peers out grinning towards the spectator. He sits on a corded sea-chest and points at his prize-money which is heaped up on a larger chest in front of him. On the wall behind his head appears a ballad headed by an oval bust…

‘King William IV (A true British tar)’ depicts the Duke Clarence (later King William IV) as a British Jack Tar. The print is a mockery against the Duke’s unsuccessful naval attempts, demoting him to a pouting seaman of the common masses. Gillray has…

‘The Invasion, Plate 1: France’ is one of two prints in which Hogarth refuted the fear of a French invasion of English during the Seven Years’ War. The print depicted an unprepared French army, accompanied by a monk who tests the sharpness of his ax.…

James Gillray's 'Design for the Naval Pillar,' the image the exhibition focuses around, displays a statued configured of high relief objects standing upon a rock in a story sea. The base is supported by two figures: Fortitude, with a lion, resting…