'Vil you give us a glass of gin. I'll see you d--n'd first'
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- set matching 'Dighton etchings (vol 1)'
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'Vil you give us a glass of gin. I'll see you d--n'd first'
by and published by Robert Dighton
hand-coloured etching, published 4 January 1793
7 7/8 in. x 5 7/8 in. (200 mm x 148 mm) plate size; 12 3/8 in. x 10 1/8 in. (315 mm x 258 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1895
Reference Collection
NPG D13312
Artistback to top
- Robert Dighton (1751-1814), Portrait painter, caricaturist and actor. Artist or producer associated with 320 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.
Events of 1793back to top
Current affairs
Whig MP Charles Grey enters a motion for parliamentary reform but is defeated in the House of Commons.Art and science
Radical philosopher William Godwin publishes Political Justice, an inflamatory document that promoted rational anarchism. This crystallised a wider feeling that a new era of world peace and progress was beginning.Sir William Beechey is appointed Portrait Painter to her Majesty, Queen Charlotte.
International
Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette are executed and the Reign of Terror begins.France declares war on Britain, Holland and then Spain. William Pitt addresses the House of Commons and Britain hesitantly joins the first coalition of anti-revolutionary European states to oppose the French threat.
Attack on Corsica in which Captain Horatio Nelson loses an eye.
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