Irish gratitude [graphic].

Description

Title: Irish gratitude [graphic].
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Grattan, Henry,--1746-1820--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Pery, Edmund Sexton,--Viscount,--1719-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created: 1782 June 13
Copyright Date: [13 June 1782]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Abstract: Henry Grattan, wearing bag-wig and sword, stands at the head of a kneeling crowd of Dubliners, including a monk, oyster woman, chimney-sweep, soldier and watchman. He is being presented with a paper inscribed "Grant of the sum of £100000..." by the Irish Speaker, Edmund S. Pery, behind whom stands another crowd of Irish notables. Grattan was awarded money, later reduced to the sum of £50,000, for his role in securing the independence of the Irish parliament.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Extent: 1 print : etching in brown ink ; plate mark 24.4 x 34.7 cm, on sheet 27 x 44 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1782.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1782.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Grattan, Henry,--1746-1820--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Pery, Edmund Sexton,--Viscount,--1719-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress--Ireland--1780-1790.
Crowds.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6003
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 37