Spouting [graphic].

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Title: Spouting [graphic].
Alternative Title: "Strike home! and I will bless thee for the blow!"
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [14 May 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. May 14th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Abstract: "Fox (right), capering with excitement, raises a dagger in his right hand, as if to strike a grotesquely stout and short lady, who faces him, throwing back her arms. Both faces, especially that of Fox, have the exaggerated expressions of ranting actors in melodrama."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Daggers -- Spouting.
Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Etchings England London 1792
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Fox, Elizabeth, 1750-1842
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Elizabeth, 1750-1842 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1792
England > London > 1792
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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