Monuments lately discover'd on Salisbury Plain [graphic].

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Title: Monuments lately discover'd on Salisbury Plain [graphic].
Alternative Title: Monuments lately discovered on Salisbury Plain
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Cecil, Mary Amelia,--Marchioness of Salisbury,--1750-1835--Caricatures and cartoons.
George--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1762-1830--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Robinson, Mary,--1758-1800--Caricatures and cartoons.
Salisbury, James Cecil,--Marquess of,--1748-1823--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created: 1782 July 15
Copyright Date: [15 June 1782]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Abstract: A satire on the Prince of Wales's relations with Lady Salisbury, the pair shown holding hands on the right, while her husband, drawn as a block of stone, stamps angrily in the center. Between them is Mrs. Robinson, who had been deserted by the Prince, and on the left 5 figures are dancing in a circle.
Description: CtY-LW
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title etched below image.
Two lines of explanatory text below title: The figures No. 1 & 2 are judged by conoiseurs [sic] to have lately been animated with the coelestial fire ...
Extent: 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 24 x 33 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1782.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1782.
Subject (Geographic): Salisbury Plain (England)
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Cecil, Mary Amelia,--Marchioness of Salisbury,--1750-1835--Caricatures and cartoons.
George--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1762-1830--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Robinson, Mary,--1758-1800--Caricatures and cartoons.
Salisbury, James Cecil,--Marquess of,--1748-1823--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress--England--1780-1790.
Couples.
Cuckolds.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6115
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 373
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 37