Le baiser a la Wirtembourg [graphic] / Js. Gy. inv. & fect. ad vivam.

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Title: Le baiser a la Wirtembourg [graphic] / Js. Gy. inv. & fect. ad vivam.
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Charlotte,--Queen, Consort of Frederick I, King of Württemberg,--1766-1828--Caricatures and cartoons.
Frederick--I,--King of Württemberg,--1754-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: 1797 April 15
Copyright Date: [15 April 1797]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, New Bond Street & St. James's Street
Abstract: "The Prince of Würtemberg (right) bends forward, kissing the Princess Royal on the right cheek. Her figure is matronly, his is corpulent. He wears two ribbons, many stars on his coat, while the jewels of orders dangle from his button-holes (cf. BMSat 9007)."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Three lines of quoted verse below title: "Heav'n grant their happiness complete, and may they make both ends to meet, in these hard times.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 36 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1797.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1797.
Watermarks (Paper)--J. Ruse--1802.--CtY-BR
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Charlotte,--Queen, Consort of Frederick I, King of Württemberg,--1766-1828--Caricatures and cartoons.
Frederick--I,--King of Württemberg,--1754-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Subject (Topic): Kissing.

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. 9006
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 171
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 224