Farmer George's wonderful monkey [graphic]

Description

Title: Farmer George's wonderful monkey [graphic]
Creator: O'Keeffe, W., active 1794-1805, printmaker
Contributor: Aitken, James, active 1788-1802, publisher.
Published / Created: July 2nd, 1795.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Fields
Abstract: "Social satire; Pitt the Younger portrayed as a monkey, with regalia and his crown hanging on a chain around his neck, in a field labelled "Windsor Park"; below the image a text explains that this animal is confounding naturalists, who suppose it to be an offspring of the devil."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed at bottom of image with printmaker W. O'Keeffe's monogram; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1991,0720.19.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark in lower right corner.
Three lines of text below title: The naturalist's of this country is [sic] at a loss how to give an account of this extroardionary [sic] animal ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: Edmeads & Pine 1797.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; November 2020.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 34.3 x 25 cm, on sheet 35.8 x 27 cm
Language: English