Sir Cecils budget for paying the national debt [graphic].

Description

Title: Sir Cecils budget for paying the national debt [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Darchery, Elizabeth, publisher.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Riviere & Son Binding.
Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)
Wray, Cecil,--Sir,--1734-1805--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created: 1784 March 30
Copyright Date: [30 March 1784]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: Mrs. Dackery, St. James's Street
Abstract: In the foreground, the veterans with wooden legs and on crutches try to get away from the crumbling facade of the Chelsea Hospital. Several of them lie on the ground crushed by the fallen columns. In the background, a group of women, outraged by the proposal to abolish the Chelsea Hospital and to tax employers of maid servants, attacks with brooms and a slop jar the proposal's author, Sir Cecil Wray.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 30 x 45 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Collection Title: The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Collection / Other Creator: Harvey, Francis
Collection Created: London
Container / Volume: Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-53

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1784.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1784.
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Darchery, Elizabeth, publisher.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Riviere & Son Binding.
Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)
Wray, Cecil,--Sir,--1734-1805--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic): Building failures.
Chamber pots.
Disabled veterans.
Peg legs.
Servants.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6475
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 122