Blood & Co. setting fire to [the] tower & stealing the crown [graphic].

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Title: Blood & Co. setting fire to [the] tower & stealing the crown [graphic].
Alternative Title: Blood and Co. setting fire to the tower and stealing the crown
Blood and Company setting fire to the tower and stealing the crown
Contributor: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Published / Created: [1807?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
A reduced copy of a print by Gillray with the same title. Cf. No. 7354 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Also issued separately.
Watermark: Smith & Allnutt 1816.
Mounted on leaf 45a (i.e. verso of leaf 44) of volume 2 of 12.
Provenance: From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21.5 x 29 cm, on sheet 25.9 x 42 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Auchincloss Gillray v. 2
Collection Title: V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Aquatints England London 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) Smith & Allnutt 1816
Material: aquatint & etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
Townshend, John, Lord.
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824 > Caricatures and cartoons
Townshend, John, Lord
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
Smith & Allnutt > 1816
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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