The dog tax [graphic]

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Title: The dog tax [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 April 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. April 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Abstract: "Two dogs with human faces hang from a gibbet inscribed 'not Paid for'; two others stand beneath, looking up at them with complacent triumph, these are 'To be Paid for'. The gibbet is formed of two uprights with a cross-bar. The pendent dogs who face each other in profile with expressions of despair are Sheridan (left) and Fox (right); their necks are linked by a chain. Fox has a fox's brush (as in BMSat 8796). He urinates upon Dundas who is immediately beneath him, facing Pitt. Dundas is a fat mongrel, Pitt a lean greyhound (as in BMSat 8797)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Ten lines of verse in two columns below title: New grievances so thickly come, and taxes fall so hard sir ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: allusion to the Dog Tax, April 1796 -- Gibbets.
Mounted to 48 x 34 cm.
Provenance: Frederick B. Daniell & Son ; Nov. 1962 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1796
England > London > 1796
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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