Het committè van algemeen welzyn [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Het committè van algemeen welzyn [graphic].
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Hess, David, 1770-1843, artist. - Copyright Date
- [1796]
- Publication Place
- [London]
- Abstract
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"Four grotesque men, all crippled or deformed, are in a row before a set of druggist's shelves headed 'Staats Apotheek'. Those on the extreme left and right stand, the others sit. A knock-kneed hunchback (left), smoking a long pipe, the smoke inscribed 'Hellebr . . .', holds a paper: 'Recipe'. A ragged and lame National Guard picks the pocket of his neighbour. Above the shelves, and forming the apex of the design, a fury, Discord, with snaky locks, leans from clouds, holding a flaming sword and looking down threateningly at the conference. On the top shelf are a 'Guillotine' and a bull, 'Phalaris', a block inscribed 'Menschen lief de' next a gallows, a demon. Below are bottles: 'Quint Ess: de Robespierr, Sel de Marat, Recipes en Assignaten [see BMSat 8849], Rotten gift [poison for mice], Alb: Graec:' On the wall hang a sword and shackles. Text, 'Luke', xii. 26."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description
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Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata.
Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "2" in upper left corner.
Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English. - Extent
- 1 print : etching in red ink on wove paper ; plate mark 27.4 x 22.2 cm, on sheet 30.0 x 24.5 cm + 1 sheet ([1] page)
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Dutch; Flemish
English
French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 12
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
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. 7, no. 8847
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 373
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12535393
- Object ID (OID)
- 11861472
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