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

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Title: Sir Cecils budget for paying the national debt [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Darchery, Elizabeth, approximately 1739-1819, publisher.
Published / Created: [30 March 1784]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. March 30th, 1784, by Mrs. Dacheray, 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: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.4 x 33.7 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Formerly mounted on leaf 53 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.1 x 36 cm, on sheet 30 x 45 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

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

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