Het committè van noodlydende [graphic].

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11105928

Description

Title
Het committè van noodlydende [graphic].
Alternative Title
Charité bien ordonnée commence par soimême
Copyright Date
[1796]
Abstract

"Three men gorge at a dinner-table laden with food and wine. A fat man with the table-cloth tucked under his chin gnaws a bone. A more elegant man (left), perhaps the 'President' of BMSat 8850, but wearing ear-rings, offers a bare bone to a little ragged boy. A third (right) drinks. A man-servant stands behind, another (right) with bludgeon and clenched fist drives back a starving couple who stand in the doorway making gestures of supplication. Above the design: 'Charité bien ordonnée commence par soimême'. Text, 'James', ii. 15, 16. Similar prints in England are directed against parish officers, cf. BMSat 6877."--British Museum online catalogue.

Description
Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata.
Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "11" in upper left corner.
Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue.
Temporary local subject terms: Holland: civil discord -- Committees: public assistance -- Opulence vs. poverty -- Glutony vs. starvation -- Food: roast -- Beverages: wine.
Title etched below image.
With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English.
Extent
1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 27.7 x 22.2 cm, on sheet 36 x 28 cm + 1 sheet ([1] page)

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Auchincloss Gillray v. 12

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Citation
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8856
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 373

Identifiers

Orbis Record
8057282
Object ID (OID)
11105928
More Information
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/brbldl_getrec.asp?fld=img&id=11861543

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