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An Old PERFORMER, playing on a New INSTRUMENT/ or one of the 42d Touching the Invincible. Bone china mug, unmarked but made by Spode, 1801 (c). Transfer printed in black with an illustration after the engraving. Published by S W Fores. White straight sided mug with gilt rim and decoration. Printed caricature of a Highlander playing Napoleon as a bagpipe, verse at top left, commemorating the French defeat in Egypt. Balloon reads, ‘God save great George our King’, with verse below, ‘He fell in love with Egypt once, because it was the high road/ To India, for himself & friends, to travel by a nigh road./ And after making mighty fuss, & fighting night and day there/ Twas monstrous genteel of us, who would not let him stay there.’ Associated with Alexandria, Wars of the French Revolution, Egypt (1799-1801) 1801.

Alexandria, Battle of, 1801 (Wars of the French Revolution, Egypt 1798-1801)