The twin stars, Castor & Pollux [graphic] / Js. Gillray d. & ft.

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Title: The twin stars, Castor & Pollux [graphic] / Js. Gillray d. & ft.
Alternative Title: New pantheon ; no. 5
Twin stars, Castor and Pollux
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Sturt, Charles,--1763-1812--Caricatures and cartoons.
Copyright Date: [7 May 1799]
Abstract: "Two corpulent men, with arms interlaced, trip through space, their heads turned in profile to the right, naked except for a piece of floating drapery. One (left) holds up a frothing tankard of Berkley Ale, the other a foaming goblet, tankard and goblet being the centre of a pointed star. The heads are well characterized, and alike only in fatness, short hair, and side-whisker."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: No. 5 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 ; sheet 26 x 20 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 Turkey Mills--CtYLW
Watermarks (Paper)--J. Whatman Turkey Mills--1817.--CtY-BR
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Sturt, Charles,--1763-1812--Caricatures and cartoons.

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. 9379
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 259