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
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, printmaker.
- Published / Created
- [1 February 1792]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- 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
-
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Three lines of text below title: He shoots a good shot; it will do a mans heart good to see him; he will charge you & discharge you ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Dogs: hounds -- Ministers as hounds -- Buildings: Buckingham House -- Sinecures -- Lord Grenville's sinecures as Ranger and Keeper of St. James's and Hyde Parks -- Bags of money -- Hunting: bird shooting.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.1 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 38.2 x 27.9 cm.
Mounted on leaf 2 of volume 3 of 12. - Provenance
- From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. 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 : sheet 26 x 36 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 3
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Etchings England London 1792 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
- Subjects
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Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1792
England > London > 1792
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
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.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7793561
- Object ID (OID)
- 11811381