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Captain Dick Demi-Solde on a Wild Goose Flight to the Swan River. / S. Stoutshanks Inpt. et fecit

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English: Captain Dick Demi-Solde on a Wild Goose Flight to the Swan River. / S. Stoutshanks Inpt. et fecit, from

A group of officers on half-pay mounted on geese flying over ships and water. From a trumpet held by a goose-borne officer on the far left of image is the dialogue text, "Wild Goose a hoy! lower your Studding Sails and heave to! Want company for a long voyage".[1] The central figure, is a caricature of the Duke of Wellington[2] dressed in military uniform with a tricorn hat and telescope, and has the text "Ex patria volamus" (We are flying out of the country" - to the Swan River colony - Western Australia). On the bird's neck is a pair of pistols in holsters, and a military flask hangs by a cord. On the extreme left is a tower or lighthouse on rocks projecting into the sea.[1]
Printer: Charles Ingrey
The date is given as "ca 1829"
See also: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-8899

Two further coloured images are also held at https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/artist/34324/s-stoutshanks

(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)

For the Swan River Colony see No. 15796, &c. In a glowing account of its possibilities in the 'Quarterly Review' for April 1829 there was a warning to isolated settlers: "those principally in our eye are half-pay officers of the army and navy, whose applications for leave to settle on Swan River we understand to be very numerous".[1]

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Source https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YEGmjbrn
Author S. Stoutshanks
Other versions https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/artist/34324/s-stoutshanks
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-8899

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  1. ↑ a b c https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-8899
  2. ↑ https://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110326422

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