Le ministre d'etat en grand costume Les membres du Conseil des Anciens. [graphic]

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Description

Title
Le ministre d'etat en grand costume Les membres du Conseil des Anciens. [graphic]
Contributor
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Published / Created
[1811?]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
Titles etched below images.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Two designs arranged horizontally on one plate; each design has an individual title below and a series title with numbering above.
Series title above leftmost design entitled "Le ministre d'etat en grand costume": Habits of new French legislators and other public functionaries. No. 1.
Series title above rightmost design entitled "Les membres du Conseil des Anciens": French habits. No. 2.
Reduced copies of two prints by Gillray with the same titles that were published 18 April 1798 by Hannah Humphrey. Cf. Nos. 9196 and 9197 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Plate numbered "93" 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.
Leaf 36 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

Collection Information

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.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

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

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12853654
Object ID (OID)
16192490

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