The British-butcher supplying John-Bull with a substitute for bread. [graphic]

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16192414

Description

Title
The British-butcher supplying John-Bull with a substitute for bread. [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 message to Lord Mayor.
Four lines of verse, with heading "Billy the Butcher's advice to John Bull," etched below title: Since bread is so dear (and you say you must eat), for to save the expence you must live upon meat ...
A reduced copy of a print by Gillray with the same title. Cf. No. 8665 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.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 74 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 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.1
Collection Title
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic)
John Bull (Symbolic character)
Subjects
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
John Bull (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12850141
Object ID (OID)
16192414

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