Mars [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Mars [graphic]
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [7 May 1799]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Abstract
-
"George Walpole stands defiantly, head in profile to the right, feet splayed awkwardly. He wears Roman armour with medieval greaves and a huge sabre; in his left hand is a large oval shield, in his right he supports a vertical tilting-lance, the head of which is cut off by the upper margin. His fantastic helmet is partly a cocked hat with a tricolour cockade; on it crouches a simian demon with webbed wings and long barbed tail, wearing a cap like the cornucopia of BMSat 9374, and spitting fire. Behind him (left) is a gobbling turkey-cock. Clouds form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
No. 2 in a series of six prints with a frontispiece entitled: New pantheon of democratic mythology.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom.
Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Roman armor -- Demons -- Birds: turkey -- Weapons: tilting lance -- Swords -- Shields -- Bonnet rouge.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 20.4 cm, on sheet 33.6 x 24.3 cm.
Mounted on leaf 13 of volume 5 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 24.8 x 20 cm, on sheet 26 x 21 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. 5
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Walpole, George, 1758-1835
- Subjects
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Walpole, George, 1758-1835 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1799
England > London > 1799
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
- 8190428
- Object ID (OID)
- 11858765
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