A keen-sighted politician warming his imagination [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- A keen-sighted politician warming his imagination [graphic].
- Contributor
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1810?]
- Publication Place
- London?
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
A copy of the companion print to BMSat 8656. "Grenville stands on a hearth-rug, his back to a blazing fire (right), holding up to his face an open book inscribed: 'Fundamental Principles of Government for 1795', at which he looks sideways and near-sightedly. He raises his coat-tails to warm his bulky posteriors, his left hand in his breeches pocket. On the chimney-piece lie two books: 'Court Cookery' and 'Locke on Human Understanding'. Hanging above it is a 'Map of British Victories on the Continent' on which confused scrawls are depicted. On the back wall (left) is a bracket supporting a bowl of gold-fish, above which is a picture of the 'Treasury Bench': three Ministers seated as if in Parliament, in back view with their coats drawn aside to show their bulky posteriors; the wall of the Treasury forms a background. Beneath the title is etched in two columns: '"Lord-Pogy boasts no common share of head; "What plenteous stores of knowledge may contain "The spacious tenement of Pogy's brain! "Nature in all her dispensations wise, "Who form'd his head-piece of so vast a size, Hath not, 'tis true, neglected to bestow Its due proportion on the part below; And hence we reason, that to serve the state His top & bottom, may have equal weight."'"--British Museum online catalogue, original version published by Hannah Humphrey
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Date assigned by cataloger.
Nine lines of quoted verse in two columns below title: "Lord-Pogy boasts no common share of head; "what plenteous stores of knowledge may contain ...
A reduced copy of a print with the same title that was etched by Gillray and published 12 June 1795 by Hannah Humphrey. Cf. No. 8658 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Plate numbered "152" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 90 in volume 3. - 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 28.2 x 22 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 26 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
- Collection Title
- V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1810
Etchings England London 1810
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
- Subjects
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Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1810
England > London > 1810
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > 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
- 12883752
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192366