"The King and Queen (left), seated under a canopy decorated with a crown and the royal arms, listen enraptured to a concert; the performers are arranged in a pyramid on the right. Numbers on the figures refer to notes engraved beneath the design. Geor...
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Pub'd May 10th, 1787 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
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George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Sir, 1749-1789, Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Mawbey, Joseph, Sir, 1730-1798, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, Macdonald, Archibald, Sir, 1747-1826, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797, Jefferyes, Elizabeth, active 1787-1791, Ashbridge, John, -1799, Bates, Joah, 1741-1799, and Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802
Leaf 39. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
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1
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still image
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"Two young men and two women dressed in an approximation of seventeenth-century costume with rods and a pile of fish they have just caught."--British Museum online catalogue
In the upper half of the poster, a colorful fish swims in blue water, holding a gleaming gold ring in its mouth to present it to the small fisherman in a boat holding a net on the right. In the bottom half of the poster, the fish floats belly-up in mu...
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publisher not identified
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Fairy tales, Pollution, Water, Fish, Rings, and Fishermen
A full-length depiction of a female fishmonger composed of fish: her hat is a lobster, her dress a large fillet of a angel (?) fish, her arms composed of various other fish, whole or parts. Behind her a barrel of oysters on a wooden stool
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Pub. by C. Tilt, Fleet Street and Printed by G.E. Madeley, Wellington St., Strand
Subject (Topic):
Arcimboldesque figures, Fishmongers, Fish, Oysters, and Baskets
A satire showing bishops with the bodies of fish and crabs, under the "waters of agitation" and weeping over their loss of livings and tithes. One holds a bag labelled "Place, £10,000."
