About this image...

Image Title: The Thunderer, 1782

Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist

Date: 1782 Augt. 20th.

Summary: Print shows Banastre Tarleton boasting of his exploits to the Prince of Wales outside a brothel labeled "The Whirligig."

Notes: Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the / 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. 831.|Color impression Exhibited: "Two Extrodinary Women : The Art and Poetry of Maria Hadfield Cosway (1760-1838) and Mary Darby Robinson (1757-1800)" at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, December 2015-June 2016.

Subjects: Brothels--England--1780-1790
George--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1762-1830
Tarleton,--Lieutenant-General--(Banastre),--1754-1833
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783

Original Media: Etching|Etching

Collections: Cartoon Prints, British » more info...

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