Jun 21, 2018 - Sale 2483

Sale 2483 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 845
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) L'Anglais corrigé comme un Enfant. Hand-colored engraving, 9x11 1/4 inches; minimal wear. [France, circa 1781-82]
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In the wake of the English defeat by the American alliance, this French print celebrates "the English chastised like a baby." A bare-armed American prepares to deliver a thrashing to an Englishman, while a Spaniard helpfully holds up the victim's shirt-tails to expose his bare bottom. A Frenchman holds his belly and laughs to the left, while a Dutchman seated on a pile of his merchandise offers the Englishman the "horns"--the two-fingered salute of the devil. Cresswell 841; none others traced at auction.