Opening of the budget, or, John Bull giving his breeches to save his bacon [graphic].

Description

Title: Opening of the budget, or, John Bull giving his breeches to save his bacon [graphic].
Alternative Title: John Bull giving his breeches to save his bacon
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.
A reduced copy of a print by Gillray with the same title. Cf. No. 8836 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
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 50 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 21.9 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
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic): John Bull (Symbolic character)
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834 > Caricatures and cartoons
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
John Bull (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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.