An excrescence, a fungus, alias, A toadstool upon a dung-hill [graphic].

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Title: An excrescence, a fungus, alias, A toadstool upon a dung-hill [graphic].
Alternative Title: Toadstool upon a dung-hill
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Pitt, William,--1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created: 1791 December 20
Copyright Date: [20 December 1791]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Abstract: "The head of Pitt, gazing up in profile to the right, is travestied as a fungus; his long neck represents the stalk, which grows out of a crown resting on a dunghill on which are three satellite toad-stools. Clouds and landscape, slightly indicated, form a background."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.5 x 22.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1791.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1791.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Pitt, William,--1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.

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. 7936
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 135