The gig / Wells del., British Cartoon Print

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."

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.

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.

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