Harpyes defiling the feast [graphic] / Js. Gillray d. & ft.

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Title: Harpyes defiling the feast [graphic] / Js. Gillray d. & ft.
Alternative Title: Harpies defiling the feast
New pantheon ; no. 3
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Jekyll, Joseph,--1754-1837--Caricatures and cartoons.
Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William,--Sir,--1751-1804--Caricatures and cartoons.
Tierney, George,--1761-1830--Caricatures and cartoons.
Copyright Date: [7 May 1799]
Abstract: "'The Feast' is a steaming sirloin in a dish inscribed John Bull's Comfort, flanked by (left) a frothing tankard decorated with the Royal Arms and (right) a plum-pudding. The three harpies, Tierney (left), Shuckburgh, and Jekyll (right), malignantly vomit and excrete on the feast. Tierney hovers over the tankard, Shuckburgh over the beef; Jekyll, with webbed wings and barrister's wig and bands, is planted on the pudding. All do their worst to the beef, against the dish of which lies a carving-knife and fork."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: No. 3 in a series of six prints with a frontispiece entitled: New pantheon of democratic mythology.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.1 x 19.7 cm, on sheet 29 x 24 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1799.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1799.
Watermarks (Paper)--J Whatman--1794.--CtY-LW
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Jekyll, Joseph,--1754-1837--Caricatures and cartoons.
Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William,--Sir,--1751-1804--Caricatures and cartoons.
Tierney, George,--1761-1830--Caricatures and cartoons.

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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9377
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 259