[Cruikshank (Isaac)]
Terror to the Dons or the Governor-Instructing his Little Family,
S.W. Fores, 1790.
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published under the pseudonym of ‘Tabby’, a satire on Lord Heathfield (George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar, 1717-1790), British military hero of the Seven Years War, and champion defender during the Siege of Gibraltar by the French and Spanish between 1779 and 1783, this depiction shows him directing cats to defend the battlements from an armchair, resting his gouty legs,
engraving, 245 x 345 mm. (9 5/8 x 13 5/8 in), slight marginal browning, [BM Satires 7651],
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