The British menagerie [graphic]

Description

Title: The British menagerie [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [5 July 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. July 5th 1796 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Thirteen lines of text in two columns on both sides of title provide description of the animals in the menagerie numbered in the image.
Temporary local subject terms: Economy: subsidies to allies -- Menageries -- Cages -- Crowns -- Money: guineas -- Male dress: Highland dress -- Personifications: Austrian leopard -- Prussian eagle -- Gallic cock -- Dutch frog -- Sardinian hedgehog -- Russian bear -- Swedish pig -- Condé mouse -- Brunswick mouse -- Neapolitan bat -- Pope as the 'Whore of Babylon'.
1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 33 x 46 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of imprint; mounted to 34 x 48 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 33.3 x 45.9 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799
Subject (Topic): John Bull (Symbolic character)
Animal shows
Leopards
Lions
Subjects: Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799 > Caricatures and cartoons
John Bull (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
Animal shows
Leopards
Lions
England > 1796
England > London > 1796

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