Name/Title
Peace Porridge all Hote/The Best to be got...Entry/Object ID
VC.59.242Description
Engraving, colored; at top: "PEACE Porridge all Hote/The Best to be got": beneath scene, "SONG" and Tune." Roast Beef of Old England:" scene of five standing male figures, all but one with steaming bowl, seated Indian in left foreground; figures speak in "balloons," left to right: "By gar John English has well crumb'd my dish," "My peace soup is made very good by Stewing down Minorca and the Floridas," "My loss is your gain for my Soup is very Thin," "I will not taste it yet as it is not relish'd to my mind," "Taste it Mynheer 'tis better than you deserve," while the Indian says, "I rest Contented with a dish of Independent Soup," Beneath scene, the following verses: "The Frenchman & Spaniard are both Cock-a-hoop With America too they have got such rich Soup Yet a blow or two they might have made them all Stoop. O' the rare Soup & the Cook boys And O' the rare Cooks & the Soup. 2 Their dishes well crumb'd they have reason to Boast The France & America have got the most But England finds hers very thin to her cost. 3 The Dutchman seems glouty, & is not in haste The full flowing dish that's presented to taste Let him sulk as he will be must take it at last. 4 Beleno (?) has Smooth'd for the present her front No longer in Blood & in dangers we hunt Some are sorry - but many are very glad on't. "Now plenty 'tis hop'd will return once again And Commerce has sails widely Spread o'er the main
White Joy shall revisit each Nymp, & each Swain.
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The things have gone Cross for a long time Confest
Yet now to lament, is no more than a jest
But as well as we can out of Bad, make the best."Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
T. GolbyAttribution
MakerDate made
circa 1783Inscription/Signature/Marks
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Dimension Description
OverallHeight
9-1/2 inWidth
14 inDimension Notes
Display Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 14 in. (24.1 x 35.6 cm)General Notes
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Curatorial RemarksNote
Mounted on tissue. Old Print Shop, 1959.
History: Following the Revolutionary War, many prints appeared in England on the general Subject. Most, although concerned with the loss of colonies, and the advantages gained thereby by other nations, were satirical, and not bitter. In its personification of European nations feeding upon Britain's loss, VC.59.242 is similar to the famous "Cow Caricature", of which V.C.59.252, a-b (q.v.) is an example.Note Type
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