Het committè van voorlichting [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Het committè van voorlichting [graphic].
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hess, David, 1770-1843, artist.
- Published / Created
- [1796]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"A lamp-lighter (left) stands dejectedly on his ladder which rests against a stone obelisk supporting a lamp whose glass is broken. The light has been extinguished by a blast from the head of a cherub emerging from clouds (right). A man wearing a cocked hat standing by the lamp-post tries in vain to get a spark from a flint. A stout citizen bends over a cup held by an old woman seated on the right, he stirs it and blows upon it, evidently trying to kindle a light. A dog befouls the obelisk. '. . . Ce Committé se donne bien dela peine pour allumer la grande lanterne. Mais - le vent siffie - les verres sont cassé - comment les raccomoder ? - ' Text, 'Job', xviii. 5."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue.
One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata.
Plate numbered "9" in upper left corner.
With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English.
Temporary local subject terms: Holland: civil discord -- Committees: committee of public instruction -- Lamp-lighters -- Lighting: lamps -- Dutchmen.
1 print : etching & aquatint in red ink on wove paper ; plate mark 27.5 x 21.9 cm, on sheet 29.3 x 23.8 cm.
Mounted on leaf 49 of volume 12 of 12, with letterpress explanation opposite. - Provenance
- From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 27.6 x 22.1 cm, on sheet 37 x 27 cm + 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Dutch
French
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 12
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Aquatints England London 1796 - Material
- etching & aquatint ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1796
England > London > 1796
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
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.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8057043
- Object ID (OID)
- 11861479
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