Design for the new gallery of busts and pictures [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Design for the new gallery of busts and pictures [graphic]
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [17 March 1792]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. March 17th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Abstract
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"Three busts on pedestals under two pictures: Fox, very lifelike, without inscription, between 'Demosthenes against Æschines' (left) and 'Cicero against Cataline' (right), both of whom look straight before them, frowning severely, as if outraged at their new companion. Above Demosthenes is 'Justice': a picture of Catherine II, raising a dagger to stab to the heart the Sultan, who lies on his back, his sabre and a bag of '16000000 Roubles' beside him. On the right is 'Moderation': the Empress in back view stands facing a wall-map of 'Moldavia Bessarabia Wallachia' over which she stretches her stout arms with widespread greedy fingers. Between the pictures and above Fox is a circle surmounted by an imperial crown and inscribed 'Conjugal Love A Cure for the Haemerroidical Cholic'. It encloses a noose of rope, and another rightope is looped round the exterior of the circle, indicating Catherine's complicity in the murder of her husband Peter III (cf. BMSat 8124). ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title from text in image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Five columns of verse below image: The Grecian orator of old, with scorn rejected Philip's laws, indignant spurn'd at foreign gold, and triumph'd in his country's cause ...
Text at bottom of plate: --"and so far will I trust thee gentle Kate." Henry 4th part 1st.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: art galleries -- Busts -- Pictures amplifying subject: Catherine II threatening Selim III with a dagger -- Pictures amplifying subject: Catherine II viewing a map of the Turkish empire -- Allusion to murder of Peter III, 1762.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 30.4 x 33.0 cm, on sheet 33.2 x 36.9 cm.
Mounted on leaf 5 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 : plate mark 30.1 x 32.7 cm, on sheet 32 x 38 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
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Etchings England London 1792 - Material
- etching with stipple ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796
Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Demosthenes - Subjects
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796 > Caricatures and cartoons
Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Cicero, Marcus Tullius > Caricatures and cartoons
Demosthenes > 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
- Catalog Record
- 11650277
- Object ID (OID)
- 11811384
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