[John Bull roasted] [art original]Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist[ca. 1805]engA preparatory sketch for an unpublished caricature illustrating a scene in a large Georgian kitchen. In front of the open hearth a bull is roasting on a spit as a large-bottomed man (Grenville) sits beside it basting the meat. The dish beneath it is inscribed 'Broad bottom dripping pan'. Other dishes around the room are labeled as are the pools of fat in the dripping pan; some legible notes include plum pudding and mock turtleTitle from dealer's description.Signed "J. Gillray" in lower right corner.Date from watermark: Ruse & Turner 1805.Two sheets of paper joined:One of at least three drawings of similar composition executed by Gillray; other versions of the design are held by the New York Public Library and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.Formerly mounted on a blue paper backing, now removed with residual spots of mounting paper.This sketch is mentioned in Broadley and Rose's Napoleon in Caricature 1795-1821, published in 1911. In a footnote to page 280, volume I, it notes that 'amongst Gillray's unfinished sketches for caricatures in possession of the writer [presumably Broadley, a known collector] are two very similar drawings entitled the "Broad Bottom Dripping Pan".'