A good shot, or, Billy-Ranger the Game Keeper in a fine sporting country [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- A good shot, or, Billy-Ranger the Game Keeper in a fine sporting country [graphic].
- Alternative Title
- Billy Ranger the Game Keeper in a fine sporting country
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville,--Baron,--1759-1834--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, printmaker. - Copyright Date
- [1 February 1792]
- Abstract
-
"Grenville (left) stands in St. James's Park in profile to the right, firing a gun with a wide barrel at a group of winged money-bags, &c, flying in the upper right corner of the design, rising on smoke issuing from the chimneys of 'Buckingham House'. A pen in his round hat indicates his Secretaryship. Dead game hangs from his person: a hare whose body is a money-bag inscribed 'Secretaryship of State £7000 pr Ann.', a goose, whose similar body is inscribed 'Sinecures £9000pr Ann.', and two goslings, respectively 'Private Pension £4000' and '£3000 pr Ann.' The central bird at which he fires at close range is a winged document: 'Ranger of the Park'; winged bags are '75000 pr Ann', '3000 pr Ann', and '7000 pr Ann'. All these he hits. A winged ducal coronet is flying up towards the line of fire. A group of dogs with human faces surrounds him; they lick his boots, look up at him expectantly, or watch the shot; one has a collar inscribed 'Whitehall'. The southern part of the east front of Buckingham House fills the right part of the design. Behind Grenville are trees. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description
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Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image. - Extent
- 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26 x 36 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 3
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- still image
- Genre
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Etchings--England--London--1792.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1792. - Subject (Name)
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville,--Baron,--1759-1834--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, printmaker.
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
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Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 8061
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 139
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7793561
- Object ID (OID)
- 11811381