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(WAR OF 1812.) Charles, William; artist and engraver. John Bull Making a New Batch of Ships to Send to the Lakes. Engraving, 11 x 15 3/4 inches; faint vertical fold, backed with paper, pasted to mat board along top edge. (MRS) Philadelphia, circa 1814
Based on a print by Gilray, this is a satire on the British naval losses in the War of 1812. King George III desperately tries to replenish his navy with the "Patent Oven for Bakeing Ships," but is warned that "You had better keep both your Ships and Guns at home. If you send all you've got to the Lakes, it will only make fun for the Yankeys to take them." Murrell, American Graphic Humor, page I:88 and plate 78.
