A sphere projecting against a plane [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- A sphere projecting against a plane [graphic].
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [3 January 1792]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. Jany. 3d, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Abstract
-
"Pitt, very thin, stands rigidly erect in profile to the right. Mrs. Hobart, immensely fat, completely fills a globe which stands on a rectangular platform on castors, and whose circumference rests against Pitt's post-like person. She looks up at him expectantly; he stares over her head with a pained expression. Beneath the title is etched: 'Definitions from Euclid. Def: Ist B: 4th. A Sphere, is a Figure bounded by a Convex surface; it is the most perfect of all forms; its Properties are generated from its Centre; and it possesses a larger Area than any other Figure. - Def: 2d B: Ist A Plane, is a perfectly even & regular Surface, it is the most Simple of all Figures ; it has neither the Properties of Length or of Breadth ; and when applied ever so closely to a Sphere, can only touch its Superficies, without being able to enter it - Vide. Euclid, illustrated; by the Honble Mrs Circumference.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: platform on castors -- Mathematics: definitions of sphere and plane -- Literature: Euclid's Elements, Bk. i, def. 2; Bk. iv, def. 1.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.7 x 22.3 cm, on sheet 30.1 x 24.5 cm.
Mounted on leaf 30 of volume 8 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 : sheet 28 x 23 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. 8
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Etchings England London 1792 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 - Subjects
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Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1792
England > London > 1792
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
- 7793275
- Object ID (OID)
- 11859379
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