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Hand-colored caricature of startled officers at a table with maps as a disheveled messenger bursts in with outstretched arms.

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A Messenger From the Nile - Agreeable News for The Directory - or - The Runaway Admirals Unexpected Arrival, Charles Ansell (1798). Via artnap.com

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Why is this public domain? Charles Ansell died in 1790; this work is in the public domain.

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A hand-colored satirical print shows four officers in plumed hats gathered around a draped table holding maps of Ireland and England, reacting with alarm to a disheveled messenger in a blue and red uniform who bursts in with arms outstretched. Handwritten dialogue bubbles and a printed caption with the title appear along the margins.