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The thunderer.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Elizabeth Darchery
Title
The thunderer.
Description
English: Colonel Tarleton as Bobadil stands holding out a drawn sword, his left hand on his hip boasting of his valour. His plumed helmet caricatures that in Reynolds's well-known portrait of Tarleton. On his right, behind his sword-arm, stands the Prince of Wales, with a plume of three ostrich feathers in place of a head, the centre feather having some resemblance to a face. He wears the garter ribbon, and very wide and wrinkled top-boots with small pointed feet; in his left hand is a riding-whip.


Bobadil is saying, "They have assaulted me some Three, Four, Five, Six of them together, & I have driven them afore me like a Flock of Sheep; - but this is nothing, for often in a mere frolic I have challeng'd Twenty of them, kill'd them; - Challeng'd Twenty more, kill'd them; - Twenty more, killed them too; - & thus in a day have I kill'd Twenty Score; twenty score, that's two hundred; two hundred a day, five days a thousand; thats - a - Zounds, I can't number them half; & all civilly & fairly with this one poor Toledo!"
The Prince says, "I'd as lief as twenty Crowns I could talk as fine as you, Captn ("Coll" has been scored through and "Captn" added with a caret, probably to show that "Captain Bobadil" is an officer with the rank of Colonel).
They are standing outside the door (right) of a dubious place of entertainment. Over the door is inscribed "THE WHIRLIGIG Alamode Beef, hot every Night". Above this is a branch, representing a bush, the sign that wine is sold, and on a projecting beam, the sign of the house: the figure of a courtesan seated with outstretched legs and arms saying,

"This is the Lad'll kiss most sweet
Who'd not lovea Soldier?"

Beneath the title is engraved, "Vide; Every Man in his Humour, alter 'd from Ben Johnson". 20 August 1782


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Depicted people Representation of: George IV, King of the United Kingdom
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 350 millimetres (cropped)
Width: 245 millimetres (cropped)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4874
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) For the whirligig, a punishment for army prostitutes, see 'Johnson's England', ed. A. S. Turberville, p. 72.

Tarleton was very brave, and distinguished himself in the American War (though defeated at Cowpens), but was notoriously boastful. Mrs. Robinson (Perdita) lived with him after she had been deserted by the Prince of Wales. See BMSat 6085, 6221. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 41. Wright and Evans, No. 378. (Both identify Bobadil with Major Topham.)
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4874
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