Mars [graphic]

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Title: Mars [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [7 May 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "George Walpole stands defiantly, head in profile to the right, feet splayed awkwardly. He wears Roman armour with medieval greaves and a huge sabre; in his left hand is a large oval shield, in his right he supports a vertical tilting-lance, the head of which is cut off by the upper margin. His fantastic helmet is partly a cocked hat with a tricolour cockade; on it crouches a simian demon with webbed wings and long barbed tail, wearing a cap like the cornucopia of BMSat 9374, and spitting fire. Behind him (left) is a gobbling turkey-cock. Clouds form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
No. 2 in a series of six prints with a frontispiece entitled: New pantheon of democratic mythology.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom.
Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Roman armor -- Demons -- Birds: turkey -- Weapons: tilting lance -- Swords -- Shields -- Bonnet rouge.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.8 x 20 cm, on sheet 26 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, George, 1758-1835
Subjects: Walpole, George, 1758-1835 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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