Scene le vrog house [graphic].

Description

Title: Scene le vrog house [graphic].
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de,--comte,--1729-1811--Caricatures and cartoons.
Darchery, Elizabeth, publisher.
Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse,--comte de,--1722-1788--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Rodney, George Brydges Rodney,--Baron,--1719-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
Vaudreuil, Louis Philippe de Rigaud,--marquis de,--1724-1802--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created: 1782 September 3
Copyright Date: [3 September 1782]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: E. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Abstract: Depicts Admirals Rodney, De Grasse, Vaudreuil and Bougainville, numbered 1-4 respectively, with Rodney standing on the right taking snuff, as Vaudreuil hold chamber pot being used by De Grasse, and Bougainville runs off to the left taking snuff. Names of the subjects are given in a key below design.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title from item.
Extent: 1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.4 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 27 x 37 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.
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de,--comte,--1729-1811--Caricatures and cartoons.
Darchery, Elizabeth, publisher.
Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse,--comte de,--1722-1788--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Rodney, George Brydges Rodney,--Baron,--1719-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
Vaudreuil, Louis Philippe de Rigaud,--marquis de,--1724-1802--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic): Admirals--British--18th century.
Admirals--French--18th century.
Chamber pots.
Defecation.
Military uniforms--British--18th century.
Military uniforms--French--18th century.
Snuff.

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. 6031