Lubber's Hole, alias The Crack'd Jordan

A small male figure—crouching, straining, half-swallowed—scrambles into a cracked chamber pot ('jordan' being period slang for a chamber pot) mounted on women's legs in buckled shoes. The pot's cracks signal both the vessel's damage and, coarsely, a woman's sexual availability. The title announces the target: Prince William, Duke of Clarence, and the actress Dorothea Jordan, whose liaison scandalized polite society. On the right, a coat hangs inscribed with naval references, mocking William's seamanship alongside his morals. Gillray's etching—cross-hatched shadows, grotesque scale distortion, punning caption—belongs to the London print-shop tradition that ran from Hogarth through Rowlandson: image and text locked together, sold cheaply, displayed in windows. That fusion of sequential visual gag, speech label, and satirical caption is the direct ancestor of the comic strip.