[Shipload of seasick Opposition savants, or, A Margate hoy] [art original].

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Title: [Shipload of seasick Opposition savants, or, A Margate hoy] [art original].
Alternative Title: Margate hoy
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1800]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Tentative identification of Fox, Sheridan, Moira, Sir John Sinclair, and Sir George Shuckburgh in chairs, leaning against the sides of bunks in a ship, all sleeping or being ill
Description: Title from Draper Hill; alternative title from pencil inscription on verso: A Margate hoy.
Date from Draper Hill, who suggests that the drawing is a preliminary for one of the illustrations for the abandoned de luxe edition of Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin.
Provenance: From the collection of Draper Hill, his sale Phillips 26 June 2001, lot 92. Purchased by The Lewis Walpole Library from Andrew Edmunds, October 2017.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 24 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and black ink, pencil and red chalk ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835
Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804
Subject (Topic): Interiors
Motion sickness
Ships
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835 > Caricatures and cartoons
Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804 > Caricatures and cartoons
Interiors
Motion sickness
Ships
England > 1800
British > 18th century
Hill, Draper > Ownership

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Citation: James Gillray, Shipload of Seasick Opposition Savants, or, A Margate Hoy. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.