Councellor Ego, i.e. Little i, Myself i [graphic] / Js. Gillray d. & f.

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Title: Councellor Ego, i.e. Little i, Myself i [graphic] / Js. Gillray d. & f.
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Published / Created: 1798 October 1
Copyright Date: [1 October 1798]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: J. Wright, No. 169 Piccadilly
Abstract: Erskine stands directed to the left, gazing straight before him; in his right hand is a sheet covered with repetitions of 'i' and 'me', and ending 'iiiiii me me me'. He wears counsellor's wig and gown, and bands. Above his head is a cap of Liberty with tricolour cockade. There is a background of low clouds.
Description: Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine, or, Monthly politique and literary censor. London, 1798, v. 1, page 355.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 20 x 12 cm
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1798.
Periodical illustrations.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1798.
Stipple engravings--England--London--1798.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Erskine, Thomas Erskine,--Baron,--1750-1823--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Wright, J. (John), 1770?-1844, publisher.
Subject (Topic): Lawyers.
Liberty cap.

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. 9246