What a cur 'tis! [graphic].

Description

Title: What a cur 'tis! [graphic].
Alternative Title: What a Curtis
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Curtis, Roger,--Sir,--1746-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Howe, Richard Howe,--Earl,--1726-1799--Caricatures and cartoons.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Abstract: "Lord Howe sits full-face in an armchair, reading a 'Gazette' headed 'June Ist 1795'. He wears naval uniform, with a hat, smokes a long pipe and scowls meditatively. A dog with the head of Sir Roger Curtis grovels at his feet, kissing his right toe; he has a collar inscribed 'Black Dick's Dog'. Behind Howe is a row of windows close together, with a view of the sea and ships. Beneath the windows is a broad shelf on which are wine-bottles, a sextant, and a punch-bowl. On a table at Howe's right hand are a glass of wine and a plan of Torbay."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Text below title: Done from an original drawing by a British officer & publish'd as a guide to preferment.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 29 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1795.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1795.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Curtis, Roger,--Sir,--1746-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Howe, Richard Howe,--Earl,--1726-1799--Caricatures and cartoons.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8657
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 190