John Bull taking a luncheon: - or - British cooks, cramming old grumble-gizzard, with bonne-chére Portrait Print
John Bull taking a luncheon: - or - British cooks, cramming old grumble-gizzard, with bonne-chére NPG D12661
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
This print is one of several produced to celebrate Britain's victory at Aboukir Bay in August 1798. Nelson, wearing an apron over his uniform, serves John Bull a main course of captured French ships. He is surrounded by other heroic British admirals including General Howe, Earl St Vincent and Sir John Warren who offer a variety of other dishes, symbolising previous naval triumphs. An already obese John Bull, symbol of England and a regular figure in Gillray's work, appears here as 'Old Grumble-Gizzard' complaining ungraciously... more
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