An excrescence, a fungus, alias, A toadstool upon a dung-hill [graphic].

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Title: An excrescence, a fungus, alias, A toadstool upon a dung-hill [graphic].
Alternative Title: Toadstool upon a dung-hill
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 December 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Decr. 20h [sic], 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Abstract: "The head of Pitt, gazing up in profile to the right, is travestied as a fungus; his long neck represents the stalk, which grows out of a crown resting on a dunghill on which are three satellite toad-stools. Clouds and landscape, slightly indicated, form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.7 x 22.7 cm, on sheet 30.4 x 24.7 cm.
Mounted on leaf 74 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 : sheet 27.5 x 22.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic): Politics and government
Fungi
Crowns
Subjects: Great Britain > Politics and government > 1760-1789
Fungi
Crowns
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1791
England > London > 1791
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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