A peep into Saldanha Bay, or, Dutch perfidy rewarded

Hand-colored etching after Issac Cruikshank published November 7, 1796. 'A short fat Dutchman stands full-face; his pipe falls from his mouth, coins drop from his breeches pockets. His tall hat, full of coins, is held by an English sailor (left) who bends towards him, directing a squirt of tobacco-juice at his face. On the right is another sailor, who seizes a wretched, ragged Frenchman, holding him by a cloth round the neck, and threatening him with a clenched fist. The Dutchman says: "Between John Bull, & the French Republic poor Mynheer will be Robbed of all. D------n the Scheldt." The sailor on the right says: "come come Mynheer the Republicans must not have all the money, we must have a little Handaway d'ye see." The Frenchman, who stands in profile to the left, knees bent, hands clasped, his bonnet-rouge falling from his head, says to his assailant, "by Gar Mynheer has got all de money." On the extreme left is a post or scraggy palm-tree in a tub, inscribed 'Tree of Liberty'; up this a monkey is climbing, while another, chained to it, tries to reach the coins at the feet of the sailor. The background is a low fortification with a cannon in an embrasure' -- British Museum Hand-colored etching after Issac Cruikshank published November 7, 1796. 'A short fat Dutchman stands full-face; his pipe falls from his mouth, coins drop from his breeches pockets. His tall hat, full of coins, is held by an English sailor (left) who bends towards him, directing a squirt of tobacco-juice at his face. On the right is another sailor, who seizes a wretched, ragged Frenchman, holding him by a cloth round the neck, and threatening him with a clenched fist. The Dutchman says: "Between John Bull, & the French Republic poor Mynheer will be Robbed of all. D------n the Scheldt." The sailor on the right says: "come come Mynheer the Republicans must not have all the money, we must have a little Handaway d'ye see." The Frenchman, who stands in profile to the left, knees bent, hands clasped, his bonnet-rouge falling from his head, says to his assailant, "by Gar Mynheer has got all de money." On the extreme left is a post or scraggy palm-tree in a tub, inscribed 'Tree of Liberty'; up this a monkey is climbing, while another, chained to it, tries to reach the coins at the feet of the sailor. The background is a low fortification with a cannon in an embrasure' -- British Museum A Dutch force of 2,000 troops, conveyed by six warships, sent to recapture the Cape of Good Hope, capitulated to Elphinstone's squadron on 17 Aug. 1796, while sheltering in Saldanha bay, north of Cape Town Long narrow folio. New York, Walter Schatzki, 1964. Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)