Het committè van financie [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Het committè van financie [graphic].
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hess, David, 1770-1843, artist.
- Published / Created
- [1796]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"Four members of the committee surround a treasure-chest, dismayed to find it empty of ducats and occupied by a grinning demon who points derisively at one of them, the Secretary (wearing a bonnet-rouge with a pen in it) who holds upside down an empty bag inscribed 'ils ont emigrè'. One of them, his back to the chest, takes from a Jew (left) wearing a fur cap a dish on which a little demon is excreting coins. On the right a large cupboard falls forward shooting the huge packages it contains, inscribed 'Recepissen' and 'Assignats', on to the backs of two of the committee, the more prominent is the president of the Committee of Accounts in BMSat 8850. '. . . les beaux ducats! ils ont passé chez nos frêres, les Français! dit le Secretaire....' The Jew sells a figure which he assures the purchaser will, if nourished with the tears of the Orangists, give fifty ducats daily. This is better than the piles of assignats which threaten ruin. Text, 'Ecclesiasticus, Jesus Sirach', xl. 13."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue.
One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata.
Plate numbered "4" in upper left corner.
With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English.
Temporary local subject terms: Committees: finance committee -- Jews -- Treasury chests -- Demons -- Finances: assignats -- Receipts -- Money: coins -- Holland: civil discord.
Letterpress explanation lacking. - Provenance
- Old Print Shop; 1961.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 27.5 x 21.8 cm, on sheet 37 x 28 cm + 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
- Language
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Dutch
French
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 796.00.00.09
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1796
England > London > 1796
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
- Orbis Record
- 8056977
- Object ID (OID)
- 11124068