Blowing up the Pic Nic's, or, Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets [graphic] / Js. Gillray invt. & fect.
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Description
- Title
- Blowing up the Pic Nic's, or, Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets [graphic] / Js. Gillray invt. & fect.
- Alternative Title
- Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Billington, Elizabeth,--1765-1818--Caricatures and cartoons.
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart,--Countess of,--1738-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cecil, Mary Amelia,--Marchioness of Salisbury,--1750-1835--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley,--Marquess of,--1749-1827--Caricatures and cartoons.
Garrick, David,--1717-1779--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Kemble, John Philip,--1757-1823--Caricatures and cartoons.
Lewis, William Thomas,--1746?-1812--Caricatures and cartoons.
Mount Edgcumbe, Richard Edgcumbe,--Earl of,--1764-1839--Caricatures and cartoons.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Siddons, Sarah,--1755-1831--Caricatures and cartoons. - Published / Created
- 1802 April 2
- Copyright Date
- [2 April 1802]
- Publication Place
- [London]
- Publisher
- H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Abstract
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"Sheridan leads the forces of the professionals against the amateurs of the Pic Nic Society, who are performing on a small, elegant stage, rising (without orchestra) from the boards in the foreground where these enemies advance. He is dressed as Harlequin; the tight chequered dress (slightly torn) accentuates his obesity; an empty purse hangs from his belt; in his left hand is a hat with a tricolour cockade (emblem of Jacobinism). In his right hand he flourishes a large pen whose feather makes wide swirling curves, terminating in firework-stars, and inscribed with the names of newspapers: 'Courier', 'Morning Post', 'Morning Herald', 'Morning Chronicle'. He is masked, to indicate that he has been writing anonymous squibs against the Pic Nics. The swirls of his pen partly obscure a figure of Comedy, meretricious, and half-naked, holding up a mask which decorates the left pilaster of the proscenium. The actors follow in characteristic attitudes. Kemble (as Hamlet) wearing a ribbon, ranting in tragedy, directly behind Sheridan, staggers back with legs astride, both arms raised. On the left is Mrs. Billington, singing as in BMSat 9765, left hand on her breast. Mrs. Siddons (? as Lady Macbeth) clutches a dagger. Behind is the head of Lewis (see BMSat 9915), with a comedian's smile, wearing a cocked hat. Crowds of actors pressing on from behind (left) and in deep shadow, are indicated by arms holding up banners; the chief one with the head of 'Shakespeare', badly torn. Others are 'Otway Rowe'; 'Kotzbue', and 'Schiller', both tricolour (indicating the supposedly revolutionary tendencies of modern German drama, cf. 'The Rovers' in the 'Anti-Jacobin', and BMSat 7054); 'Jonson', 'Congreve', 'Addison'. In the foreground, through splintering boards, the ghost of Garrick rises, a mask in his hand. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description
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Text following title: Vide Tottenham Street pantomime.
Title etched below image. - Extent
- 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.5 x 25.4 cm, on sheet 40.4 x 28.8 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- still image
- Genre
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Aquatints--England--London--1802.
Etchings--England--London--1802.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1802.
Watermarks (Paper)--E & P.--CtY-BR - Subject (Name)
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Billington, Elizabeth,--1765-1818--Caricatures and cartoons.
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart,--Countess of,--1738-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cecil, Mary Amelia,--Marchioness of Salisbury,--1750-1835--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley,--Marquess of,--1749-1827--Caricatures and cartoons.
Garrick, David,--1717-1779--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Kemble, John Philip,--1757-1823--Caricatures and cartoons.
Lewis, William Thomas,--1746?-1812--Caricatures and cartoons.
Mount Edgcumbe, Richard Edgcumbe,--Earl of,--1764-1839--Caricatures and cartoons.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Siddons, Sarah,--1755-1831--Caricatures and cartoons.
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
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Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 9916
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 516
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 288
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12514886
- Object ID (OID)
- 11861042