The magnanimous ally [graphic] : painted at Petersburg.

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Title: The magnanimous ally [graphic] : painted at Petersburg.
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Paul--I,--Emperor of Russia,--1754-1801--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created: 1801 January 20
Copyright Date: [20 January 1799]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "The tattered flag ('Vive l'Egalité), on which stands Paul, grotesque, mean, and arrogant, has been altered to a torn paper: 'Treaty of Alliance'. The background is the sea with on the horizon (right) a castellated Malta flying the British flag. Above the design: 'Mens turpe [sic], Corpore turpi.'"--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Reissue, with alterations, of a print originally published 17 September 1799. Cf. No. 9415 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 34.2 x 25.9 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1801.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1799.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Paul--I,--Emperor of Russia,--1754-1801--Caricatures and cartoons.

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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 9700
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 256
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 273