The dog tax [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The dog tax [graphic]
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [12 April 1796]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. April 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Abstract
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"Two dogs with human faces hang from a gibbet inscribed 'not Paid for'; two others stand beneath, looking up at them with complacent triumph, these are 'To be Paid for'. The gibbet is formed of two uprights with a cross-bar. The pendent dogs who face each other in profile with expressions of despair are Sheridan (left) and Fox (right); their necks are linked by a chain. Fox has a fox's brush (as in BMSat 8796). He urinates upon Dundas who is immediately beneath him, facing Pitt. Dundas is a fat mongrel, Pitt a lean greyhound (as in BMSat 8797)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Ten lines of verse in two columns below title: New grievances so thickly come, and taxes fall so hard sir ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: allusion to the Dog Tax, April 1796 -- Gibbets.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 36.8 x 25.4 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left edge.
Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 4 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 36 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. 4
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811 - Subjects
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Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1796
England > London > 1796
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
- 8067515
- Object ID (OID)
- 11823808
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