Het committè van financie [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Het committè van financie [graphic].
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Hess, David, 1770-1843, artist. - Copyright Date
- [1796]
- Publication Place
- [London]
- Abstract
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"Four members of the committee surround a treasure-chest, dismayed to find it empty of ducats and occupied by a grinning demon who points derisively at one of them, the Secretary (wearing a bonnet-rouge with a pen in it) who holds upside down an empty bag inscribed 'ils ont emigrè'. One of them, his back to the chest, takes from a Jew (left) wearing a fur cap a dish on which a little demon is excreting coins. On the right a large cupboard falls forward shooting the huge packages it contains, inscribed 'Recepissen' and 'Assignats', on to the backs of two of the committee, the more prominent is the president of the Committee of Accounts in BMSat 8850. '. . . les beaux ducats! ils ont passé chez nos frêres, les Français! dit le Secretaire....' The Jew sells a figure which he assures the purchaser will, if nourished with the tears of the Orangists, give fifty ducats daily. This is better than the piles of assignats which threaten ruin. Text, 'Ecclesiasticus, Jesus Sirach', xl. 13."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description
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Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata.
Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "4" in upper left corner.
Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue.
Temporary local subject terms: Committees: finance committee -- Jews -- Treasury chests -- Demons -- Finances: assignats -- Receipts -- Money: coins -- Holland: civil discord.
Title etched below image.
With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English. - Extent
- 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 27.5 x 21.8 cm, on sheet 37 x 28 cm + 1 sheet ([1] page)
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Dutch; Flemish
English
French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 12
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
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.
- Citation
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Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8849
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 373
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8056977
- Object ID (OID)
- 11861474