The National Assembly petrified [graphic].

Description

Title: The National Assembly petrified [graphic].
Contributor: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Published / Created: [1811?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched below image.
Date assigned by cataloger.
A reduced copy of the top half of a print etched by Gillray and published 28 June 1791 by S.W. Fores. Cf. No. 7883 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Plate numbered "68" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 16 in volume 2.
Provenance: Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21.7 x 29 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 42 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
Collection Title: V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection/Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1811
Etchings England London 1811
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1811
England > London > 1811
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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