[John Bull roasted] [art original]
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Description
- Title
- [John Bull roasted] [art original]
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1805]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
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A preparatory sketch for an unpublished caricature illustrating a scene in a large Georgian kitchen. In front of the open hearth a bull is roasting on a spit as a large-bottomed man (Grenville) sits beside it basting the meat. The dish beneath it is inscribed 'Broad bottom dripping pan'. Other dishes around the room are labeled as are the pools of fat in the dripping pan; some legible notes include plum pudding and mock turtle
- Description
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Title from dealer's description.
Signed "J. Gillray" in lower right corner.
Date from watermark: Ruse & Turner 1805.
Two sheets of paper joined:
One of at least three drawings of similar composition executed by Gillray; other versions of the design are held by the New York Public Library and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Formerly mounted on a blue paper backing, now removed with residual spots of mounting paper.
This sketch is mentioned in Broadley and Rose's Napoleon in Caricature 1795-1821, published in 1911. In a footnote to page 280, volume I, it notes that 'amongst Gillray's unfinished sketches for caricatures in possession of the writer [presumably Broadley, a known collector] are two very similar drawings entitled the "Broad Bottom Dripping Pan".' - Provenance
- Draper Hill, his sale, Phillips, June 2001, lot 119. Sold at Dominic Winter Auctions, 3 October 2018, lot 409. Purchased by The Lewis Walpole Library from Jarndyce, November 2018.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : 2 sheets joined 26.8 x 44 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Drawings G41 no. 8 Box D300
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Ink drawings British 19th century
Watermarks (Paper) Ruse & Turner 1805 - Material
- pen and brown ink, red chalk highlights ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
- Subject (Topic)
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John Bull (Symbolic character)
Bulls
Kitchens
Cookery
Cooking utensils - Subjects
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Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834 > Caricatures and cartoons
John Bull (Symbolic character)
Bulls
Kitchens
Cookery
Cooking utensils
British > 19th century
Ruse & Turner > 1805
Hill, Draper > 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.
- Citation
- James Gillray, John Bull Roasted. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13857333
- Object ID (OID)
- 16706456