De Nationale Conventie in barensnood van eene constitutie [graphic].

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Title
De Nationale Conventie in barensnood van eene constitutie [graphic].
Creator
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor
Hess, David, 1770-1843, artist.
Published / Created
[1796]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"The Convention, a creature with the body of a stout woman and with seven monstrous and demoniac heads, sits full-face in an accoucheur's chair. A little demon on the ground holds up a pitchfork. A French surgeon, smiling (right), with shirt-sleeves rolled up, holds a clumsy pair of forceps; a Dutch accoucheur, fat and senile, peers into a folio volume: 'Sectio Caes: et Sectio Synchondroseos'. '. . . L'accoucheur Français, homme experimenté, prévoit ses terribles convulsions, et s'est déja muni du forceps. Son collegue Hollandais, dont les craintes vont encore plus loin, repete la théorie de l'incision Caesarienne. Il faudrait effectivement un Caesar, pour couper court à tout proces.' Text, 'Isaiah', xiv. 29. Her fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent."--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 "19" 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: Holland: civil discord -- Conventions -- Surgeons -- Medical instruments: forceps -- Physicians: Dutch accoucheurs -- Monsters.
Letterpress explanation lacking.
Provenance
Old Print Shop; 1961.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 27.8 x 21.9 cm, on sheet 37 x 28 cm + 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Language
Dutch
French
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
796.00.00.24

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Material
etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1796
England > London > 1796
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8057651
Object ID (OID)
11124069

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