Blood on thunder fording the Red Sea [graphic].

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Title: Blood on thunder fording the Red Sea [graphic].
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Hastings, Warren,--1732-1818--Caricatures and cartoons.
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow,--Baron,--1731-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created: 1788 March 1
Copyright Date: [1 March 1788]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: S. W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: "Thurlow, in his Chancellor's wig and gown, wades waist-deep in the sea, advancing towards the spectator. On his shoulders sits Hastings, in oriental dress, holding in each arm a large money-bag inscribed '£4.000.000'. Thurlow scowls; Hastings has a serene and contented expression. In the water (a sea of blood) are the mutilated corpses of Indians: three heads tied together by the hair float in the water; a man floats with a rope round his neck; there are also a scourge and birch-rod."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Attributed to Gillray in British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.7 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 27 x 40 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1788.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1788.
Watermarks (Paper)--J. Whatman.--CtY-LW
Subject (Geographic): India.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Hastings, Warren,--1732-1818--Caricatures and cartoons.
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow,--Baron,--1731-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic): Corruption.
Dead persons--India.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7278
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 95