The affrighted centaur & lion britanique [graphic] / Js. Gillray d. & ft.

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Title: The affrighted centaur & lion britanique [graphic] / Js. Gillray d. & ft.
Alternative Title: Affrighted centaur & lion britannique
Affrighted centaur and lion britanique
New pantheon ; no. 6
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Bedford, Francis Russell,--Duke of,--1765-1802--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Copyright Date: [7 May 1799]
Abstract: "A centaur with the body of the Duke of Bedford flees in terror from the angry British lion, whose head and fore-paws appear on the left. He is dressed as a jockey, with tricolour jacket and tricolour ribbons in his cap (as in other prints, e.g. BMSat 9261)."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: No. 6 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 26.0 x 19.8 cm, on sheet 31 x 26 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--1817.--CtY-BR
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Bedford, Francis Russell,--Duke of,--1765-1802--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

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. 9380
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 259