A keen-sighted politician warming his imagination [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
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Description
- Title
- A keen-sighted politician warming his imagination [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
- 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, publisher. - Copyright Date
- [13 June 1795]
- Abstract
-
"A companion print to BMSat 8656. Grenville stands on a hearth-rug, his back to a blazing fire (right), holding up to his face an open book inscribed: 'Fundamental Principles of Government for 1795', at which he looks sideways and near-sightedly. He raises his coat-tails to warm his bulky posteriors, his left hand in his breeches pocket. On the chimney-piece lie two books: 'Court Cookery' and 'Locke on Human Understanding'. Hanging above it is a 'Map of British Victories on the Continent' on which confused scrawls are depicted. On the back wall (left) is a bracket supporting a bowl of gold-fish, above which is a picture of the 'Treasury Bench': three Ministers seated as if in Parliament, in back view with their coats drawn aside to show their bulky posteriors; the wall of the Treasury forms a background. ...."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description
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Nine lines of verse in two columns below title: "Lord-Pogy boasts no common share of head ..."
Title etched below image. - Extent
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35 x 25 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--1795.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1795. - 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, publisher.
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. 7, no. 8659
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 191
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8044625
- Object ID (OID)
- 11811438