[Punishment inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver] [graphic]
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16194119
Description
- Title
- [Punishment inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver] [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Alternative form of title
- Creator
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- [December 1726]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Wm. Hogarth
- Abstract
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"An exterior scene set among ruins; to left the naked buttocks of Gulliver to whom an enema is being administered by a crowd of Lilliputians; to right their prime minister, carried in a thimble, supervises operations while beyond a rat carries off a child."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title, state, and publisher from Paulson.
Caption below image: The punishment inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver by applying a Lilypucian fire engine to his posteriors for his urinal profanation of the Royal Palace at Mildendo which was intended as a frontispiece to his first volume but omitted.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit, p. 331.
On page 163 in volume 2. - Provenance
- George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 21.3 x 33 cm
- Edition
- [State 1].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Illustrations
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Satires (Visual works) England 1726
Engravings England London 1726
Etchings England London 1726 - Material
- etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
- Subjects
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 > Illustrations
18th century
England > 1726
England > London > 1726
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > 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
- 12823922
- Object ID (OID)
- 16194119
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