Le coup de maitre [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Le coup de maitre [graphic]
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [24 November 1797]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. Novr. 24th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
- Abstract
-
"Fox (right), a hairy French ruffian, lunges fiercely forward, to aim a pistol inscribed 'La Mort' point-blank at a target symbolizing the British constitution (see BMSat 8287, &c). In his left hand he holds behind him a dagger, its blade inscribed 'Fraternite'. He is coatless and wears a French cocked hat inscribed 'Liberte', with a tricolour cockade. A miniature bonnet-rouge inscribed 'Egalite' hangs from the lapel of his waistcoat. From one pocket hangs a paper: '2 7bre Certificat de Civisme'; from another: 'Delenda . . . Carth[ago]'. His shirt-sleeves are rolled, the right sleeve in tatters, his breeches torn and unbuttoned at the knee, his stockings hang in festoons round his ankles. The target hangs by a ribbon from the gnarled branch of an old oak (left), the bull's-eye is the crown, the inner ring is inscribed 'Lords', the outer 'Commons'. There is a landscape background."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
One line of text following title: This print, copied from the French original, is dedicated to the London Corresponding Society.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Jacobins -- Constitutions: British Constitution -- French liberty -- Societies: London Corresponding Society -- Bonet rouge -- Shooting targets. - Provenance
- Old Print Shop ; 1961.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 26 x 36 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 797.11.24.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1797
Etchings England London 1797
Watermarks (Paper). - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subjects
-
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1797
England > London > 1797
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 8152979
- Object ID (OID)
- 10941072
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