Lord Nelson,Naval Uniform,British Oak,Swarm of Crocodiles,French Flag,1798

Title: Extirpation of the plagues of Egypt; destruction of revolutionary crocodiles; or the British hero cleansing ye mouth of ye Nile / Js. Gy. inv & fect.
Creator(s): Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist
Date Created/Published: [London] : Pubd. Octr. 6th 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, 1798.
Summary: Print shows Lord Nelson, in naval uniform, with left hand raised holding a club labeled 'British Oak', standing in water, among a swarm of crocodiles the colors of the French flag and representing the French fleet. He is beating the crocodiles with the club while his right hand, a hook, holds lines hooked through the jaws of several of them (probably representing French ships captured by the British during the Battle of the Nile); in the background on crocodile emits an explosion of tiny crocodiles from its open jaws; on the left are pyramids.
Notes:
Title from item.
Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum / by Mary Dorothy George, v. 7, no. 9250
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Nelson, Horatio Nelson,--Viscount,--1758-1805.
Nile, Battle of the, Egypt, 1798--Naval operations--British.
Nile, Battle of the, Egypt, 1798--Naval operations--French.
Crocodiles--Egypt--1790-1800.
Rivers--Egypt--1790-1800.
Pyramids--Egypt--1790-1800.
Nile River.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1790-1800.
Etchings--Color--1790-1800.
Bookmark /2007677453/
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