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10. The pretty Savoyard girl [graphic]
- Creator:
- Caldwall, James, 1739-1819, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1st Decr. 1771.
- Call Number:
- 771.12.01.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A girl in peasant dress shown full length holds a hurdy-gurdy or vielle suspended round her neck. She wears a neckless and pinned at her breast, a nosegay of flowers. Her face is in profile as she turns her head to the right away from the viewer
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Printed on one sheet with: Madlle. Heinel in the character of a sultana., and Watermark: J Taylor.
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Organ grinders
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The pretty Savoyard girl [graphic]
11. The wine duty, or, The triumph of Bacchus & Silenus with John Bulls remonstrance / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 April 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.04.20.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A tun of 'Wine' lies on solid trestles inscribed 'Treasury Bench'. From its huge bung-hole emerges the naked body of Pitt, as Bacchus, crowned with vine branches. He leans back tipsily, a brimming glass in each hand. Behind him stands Dundas as Silenus, fat, and partly draped in tartan; his right hand grasps Pitt's shoulder, in his left he holds up a brimming glass. He also is crowned with vine branches. Bunches of grapes hang down from a vine above their heads and are indicated as a background to the cask whose trestles are on a dais covered with a fringed carpet. Opposite the tun stands John Bull in profile to the left, looking up at Pitt, hat in hand; in his left hand is a lank purse, under his arm three empty bottles. He is a yokel, with lank hair and hydrocephalic head, wearing a smock and wrinkled gaiters. He says: "Pray Mr Bacchus have a bit of consideration for old John; - you know as how I've emptied my Purse already for you - & its waundedly hard to raise the price of a drop of Comfort, now that one's got no Money left for to pay for it!!!" Pitt says: "Twenty Pounds a T-Tun, ad-additional Duty i-i-if you d-d-don't like it at that, why t-t-t-then Dad & I will keep it all for o-o-our own Drinking, so here g-g-goes old Bu-Bu-Bull & Mouth!!! - "."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Triumph of Bacchus & Silenus and Triumph of Bacchus and Silenus
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Wine duty, 1796 -- Mythology: Bacchus -- Silenus -- Containers: wine casks -- Allusion to Treasury., and Watermark: I Taylor.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 20th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Dionysus (Greek deity)
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Taxes, Wine, Grapes, Barrels, and Purses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The wine duty, or, The triumph of Bacchus & Silenus with John Bulls remonstrance / [graphic]
