For improving the breed [graphic].

Description

Title: For improving the breed [graphic].
Alternative Title: Sketch'd at Wirtemberg
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Published / Created: 1796 October 24
Copyright Date: [24 October 1796]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Abstract: "A later state with the same inscriptions. The contour of the Prince is altered: he is very obese, his head bulges slightly at the back, and his legs are thicker. The position of his right hand is altered."--British Museum online catalogue and "A whole length portrait of the corpulent Prince Frederick William Charles of Wurtemberg, standing 'chapeau-bras' in profile to the right, wearing a ribbon; his right hand on his waistcoat, his left on the hilt of his sword. He has a very heavy double chin, thick lips, staring eye, high narrow head, and an expression of good-natured surprise."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of similar composition.
Description: Later state, with changes to the plate. Cf. No. 8827 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched at top of image.
Extent: 1 print : stipple engraving & etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24 x 17 cm
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Edition: [Later state with alterations to the subject's figure].
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1796.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1796.
Stipple engravings--England--London--1796.
Watermarks (Paper)--J Whatman.--CtY-LW
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Frederick--I,--King of Württemberg,--1754-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8827A, Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 408, and Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 214