Evening consolation [graphic].

Description

Title: Evening consolation [graphic].
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [25 February 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Self-flagellation -- Allusion to reform -- Purses -- Gambling: dice and dice-box -- Furniture: stools -- Birch rods -- Crucifix -- Maidservants -- Kissing -- Pictures amplifying subject: St. James's Park -- Desperation -- Punishment -- Allusion to William Pitt, 1759-1806.
Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; Dec. 1966;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1785
Aquatints England London 1785
Material: aquatint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subjects: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1785
England > London > 1785

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