The magnanimous minister chastising Prussian-perfidy [graphic].

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Title: The magnanimous minister chastising Prussian-perfidy [graphic].
Contributor: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Published / Created: [1807?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Text following title: Vide Morning Chronicle April 28.
A reduced copy of a print by Gillray with the same title. Cf. No. 10560 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leaf 49 in volume 1.
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 21.5 x 29 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 42 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 W87 807 v.1
Collection Title: V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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