The flying sword run mad [graphic].

Description

Title: The flying sword run mad [graphic].
Contributor: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Published / Created: [1803]
Publication Place: Weimar
Publisher: Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs
Description: Title etched above image.
Printmaker identified as Starcke and the artist as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Publication information extrapolated from the place and date of publication of the periodical for which the plate was etched.
Plate from: London und Paris. Weimar: Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1803, v. 12.
Numbered 'No. XIII' in upper right corner.
Annotated in a contemporary hand below plate mark in lower right: Lond. u. Par. 17r Jahrg. 5s St.[?].
Sheet numbered "VI No. 1" in manuscript in lower left.
Mounted on leaf 57a (i.e. verso of leaf 56) 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 17.4 x 23 cm, on sheet 22.3 x 29 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) Germany 1803
Periodical illustrations Germany 1803
Etchings Germany 1803
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Germany > 1803
19th century
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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