Billy's Babel [graphic].

Description

Title: Billy's Babel [graphic].
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created: published May 30th 1791.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Attributed to Cruikshank by cataloger based on other works of this artist in collection.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Budget: Pitt's budgets -- Taxes -- Quizzing glasses -- Allusion to Babel tower.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below and countermark J But[...]nshaw.
Mounted to 40 x 35 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 38 x 33 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Name): George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Subject (Topic): Britannia (Symbolic character)
Bishops
Subjects: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Britannia (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
Bishops > England
England > 1791
England > London > 1791

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