james gillray printmaker (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Folio (10.5 x 16 inches). Oblong, Hand-colored etching on laid paper. Very Good, mounted on blue paper with marginal tears.

Zustand: Good. Etching on wove paper. 250 x 345 mm. platemark. Sheet size 300 x 440mm. Signed in the plate lower left with publisher lower right.References: British Museum 1868,0808.7464; BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (10574)).The triumphal procession (left to right) of a black woman symbolizing Quassia, a drug obtained from the Quassia tree, which is supposed to have supplanted hops in brewing. She sits astride a drayman's pole (as in BMSat 10580, &c), from which is suspended horizontally a cask inscribed 'True Quassia Free from Taxation'; the pole is supported on the shoulders of two brewers, Whitbread (r.), and Combe (l.). She holds up in one hand a branch of the noxious tree, with a (tricolour) scroll: 'Kill-Devil [rum] for ever', and in the other a frothing tankard inscribed 'Quos-sia'. This is irradiated, the rays being inscribed 'Apoplexy', 'Palsy', 'Consumption', 'Debility', 'Colic', 'Stupor', 'Dropsy', 'Scurvy', 'Dysentery', 'Hæmorrhoids', 'Hydrophobia', 'Idiotism'. A third brewer, the very corpulent George Barclay, follows on the extreme left., waving his hat. He holds up a (tricolour) standard: 'Pro bono Publico - Quassia for Ever, - No Hops! no Malt! Down with all the Private Breweries! - Kill-Devil and Quassia for Ever!' From his apron projects a book: 'Receipts to make a Cauliflour Head'. In front of the procession is a dray-horse, with dangling chains which show that the barrel has been detached from them; its head is cut off by the r. margin. On its back sits the bulky Grenville between Fox and Petty who clings to his waist. All are in court dress, and exultingly wave their cocked hats, which, like the hats of the brewers, are decorated with large tricolour favours inscribed 'Quassia for Ever'. On the horse is a pannier with a (tricolour) label: 'Grains from the Quassia Breweries for the New Piggery' [cf. BMSat 10540]; this, like the riders' pockets, is overflowing with guineas. .From Petty's hat fall two bundles of papers: 'Tax upon Private Brewer[ies]' and 'Tax upon Maid-Servants'. Whitbread, who looks round at the spectator, has a favour in his hat larger than the others and having the additional inscription. 'No Private Breweries - Impeachment of Malt & Hops! No Scotch Barley', indicating his charges against Melville (see BMSat 10576, &c). On the ground lie broken hop-poles, with hop-vines still attached to them. Behind are conical stacks of hop-poles 'To be Sold for Fire-Wood'.

Zustand: Good. Handcolored etching on wove paper. 260 x 192 mm. platemark. Sheet size 360 x 260 mm. Signed in the plate lower left with publisher lower right.References: British Museum 1851,0901.911; BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (9209).Eighth plate in the series "French habits." First plate in the series has series title "Habits of new French legislators and other public functionaries."Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Temporary local subject terms: French costume: Directory judge.

Zustand: Good. Handcolored etching on wove paper. 280 x 215 mm. platemark. Sheet size 380 x 270mm. Signed in the plate lower left.References: British Museum 11105991; BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (9585).An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat.;

Zustand: Good. Handcolored etching. on old laid paper. 36.5 x 25.3 cm. Sheet size. Lower left: "Pubd March 13th by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly"; lower right: "Folios of Carracatures lent out fot the evening".Inscription(s)/Marks/LetteringLettered inside image, upper left: "I' have read many crabbed things in the course of my time - but this for an easy piece of Business is the toughest to understand I ever met with'"; upper right: "'Cease rude Boreas blustering railer, Trust yout Fortunes care to me.'"; center: "Tax upon Income | A plain, short, and easy description of the difference clauses in the income tax as to render it familiar to the meanest capacity"; center right: "The sweet little chorus that sits up aloft to keep watch for the purse of poor Jack"; lettered below image, lower center: .Short marginal tear, repaired. Reference: Yale Center for British Art, Accession Number B1981.25.1138.From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner, Jr., the founder of Gale Research, Detroit. .0.

Zustand: Good. Handcolored etching. on wove paper. 35.8 x 25 cm. platemark Sheet size 38.7 x 28.5 cm. Signed and dated in the plate lower left. Publisher name lower right.References: British Museum BM 10571; Met Museum Accession Number: 17.3.888-78;Wright and Evans, No. 321.Yale University library:"Fox and Lord Henry Petty stand at the door of a ramshackle tenement house; a distressed family look down at them from an open casement window over the door. Petty's hand is on the knocker; he holds a large open book and shouts "Taxes! Taxes! Taxes!" Behind his ear a pen. The book, on which Fox puts both hands, is inscribed: 'New Taxes, Property Tax 10 per Cent, Small Beer Tax, Tax on Servant Maids, Iron tax [scored through], new Malt Tax, new Window Tax, new Stamp Tax, Hats, Salt, Tobacco, Shoes, Shirts, stock[ings]'. Between door and window is a board: 'John-Bull, - late Dealer in the Shop-below; - Moved Upstairs: NB - Porter-age done; Shoes clean'd &c.' The angry John, much dishevelled, holds open the window to shout down: "Taxes? - Taxes? - Taxes? - why how am I to get Money to pay them all? - I shall very soon have neither a House, nor Hole to put my head in." Fox answers: " - a house to put your \ "head in? - why what \ "the Devil should you want \ "with a House? - hav'nt \ "you got a first-Floor-Room \ "to live in? - & if that is too \ "dear, can't you move into \ "the Garret or get into the \ "Cellar? - Taxes must \ "be had, Johnny! - come \ "down with your Cash \ "its all for the good \ "of your dear \ "Country!" In Fox's coat pocket is a large money-bag inscribed 'Poundage'. Behind John stands woman holding an infant in each arm, another child gnaws a bone; two others one with a skull-like head, look from the window. On the ground floor (l.) is a shuttered window placarded 'This Shop to Let Enquire of the Tax Gatherer'. The window above it has been bricked up to escape the tax; a lean cat looks from the casement under the eaves. From the window above John Bull (a corner only visible) hang a ragged shirt and stockings. A lamp projectine from the house (a corner one) is broken. Against the wall beside the door (r.) is a pump at which are three ragged children: a little boy pumps, another kneels to put his mouth to the gushing water, while a little girl with a raw turnip eagerly waits her turn. On the pump are two inscriptions: 'New Brewery for the Benefit of the Poor - C.J. F - in ye Chair - Resolved . . .' and 'Erected 1806 C.J Volpone [cf. BMSat 9892, &c.] - Overseer'. By the children lie a hoop-stick and a hoop from a barrel and inscribed 'Whitbreads Entire' [cf. BMSat 10421, &c.]. On the left. are barrels inscribed 'Home-Brew'd Small-Beer Ten Shillings a Barrel Duty'. Across the road (l.) is a pawnshop with the sign of the three balls: 'Broad-bottom Pop-Shop' [see BMSat 10530]. In the upper windows of the prosperous shop are piles of moneybags inscribed 'Pension' and 'Sinecure'."--British Museum online catalogue.

Zustand: Good. Handcolored etching on wove paper. 257 x 204mm. platemark.Sheet size 310 x 232 cm. Publisher name lower left.References: British Museum BM 1868,0808.7243; BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (10307); Library of Congress Control Number 91721567; .The convalescent sits full face behind a small dinner-table. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction, and is about to carve a bird. He wears his nightcap. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, smiling broadly.Yale University library:"The feast of reason & the flow of soul", i.e., The wits of the age setting the table in a roar.

Zustand: Good. Handcolored etching on wove paper. 35 x 24.3cm. sheet size. Trimmed inside the platemark. Signed in the plate with publisher name lower right.References: British Museum 1868,0808.6520; BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (8798); Yale University no. 11105991. A tun of 'Wine' lies on solid trestles inscribed 'Treasury Bench'. From its huge bung-hole emerges the naked body of Pitt, as Bacchus, crowned with vine branches. He leans back tipsily, a brimming glass in each hand. Behind him stands Dundas as Silenus, fat, and partly draped in tartan; his right hand grasps Pitt's shoulder, in his left he holds up a brimming glass. He also is crowned with vine branches. Bunches of grapes hang down from a vine above their heads and are indicated as a background to the cask whose trestles are on a dais covered with a fringed carpet. Opposite the tun stands John Bull in profile to the left, looking up at Pitt, hat in hand; in his left hand is a lank purse, under his arm three empty bottles. He is a yokel, with lank hair and hydrocephalic head, wearing a smock and wrinkled gaiters. He says: "Pray Mr Bacchus have a bit of consideration for old John; - you know as how I've emptied my Purse already for you - & its waundedly hard to raise the price of a drop of Comfort, now that one's got no Money left for to pay for it!!!" Pitt says: "Twenty Pounds a T-Tun, ad-additional Duty i-i-if you d-d-don't like it at that, why t-t-t-then Dad & I will keep it all for o-o-our own Drinking, so here g-g-goes old Bu-Bu-Bull & Mouth!!! - " 20 April 1796Hand-coloured etching.

Zustand: Good. Handcolored etching on laid paper. 24.5 x 33cm. platemark. Lettered watermark ARXXXX?Sheet size 27 x 35.7cm. Signed and dated in the plate lower left. No publisher name lower right.No. IV above the image upper right. Fold marks. Very fine contemporary coloring.References: Grego, 'Gillray', p. 329 (reproduction, p. 328). Wright and Evans, No. 311; BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (10540). Yale University library:"An old sow lies exhausted on a pile of straw outside a sty roofed with dilapidated thatch. She is beset by thirty-two voracious piglets with human heads. [The identifications are those of Miss Banks, confirmed by Lord Holland. The identifications of Wright and Evans are incomplete; Ellenborough is called the Speaker.] John Bull, a clumsy yokel in a smock, holding a pitchfork, looks over the low stone wall surrounding the sty. He exclaims: "O Lord - O Lord! - well! - I never had such a Litter of hungry Pigs in all my life before! - why, they's beyond all count! - where the devil do they think I shall find Wash & Grains for all their Guts? - zookers, why they a drain the poor old Sow to an Otomy! - 'e'cod She'll make but bad Bacon for Boney, when they's all done sucking o' her - !!!' In the centre of the struggling mass of pigs is Fox with Grenville on his left. and Grey on his right. He bestrides the Duke of Clarence, whose hind-quarters only (clad in blue and buff) are visible, and supports his right. hind-leg on the back of the Prince of Wales, who is in back view but wearing a ribbon and unmistakable. Grey also clambers over the Prince. On Grenville's l. is his fat nephew, Lord Temple. The head next Grenville is that of Sidmouth, across whose back Lord Henry Petty scrambles open-mouthed. Above Petty, Sheridan scrambles avidly over the sow; Erskine, in his Chancellor's wig scampers over the sow's hind leg. Lauderdale, whose body is chequered to indicate tartan, is behind Grenville, next him (l.) is Vansittart; on the left of the latter is a group of three plump pigs one with the head concealed, the others smiling with complacent anticipation; they are Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn and his two brothers, see BMSat 9760, &c. Behind them (l.) three pigs scamper towards the sow (l. to r.): Tierney, the Duke of Bedford, and Lord Derby. Behind again, and on the extreme left. are five rather smaller animals: George Walpole, Adair (half cut off by the margin), Burdett, Horne Tooke wearing clerical bands, and Lord Carlisle. On the r. of Grey and the Prince are Lord St. Vincent, with a foreleg on the Prince, Courteney, a foreleg on Grey, Lord Spencer who has secured a teat, and Windham who clambers downwards from the sow's shoulder. Between Courteney and Spencer is a pig whose head is concealed, 'not meant for any body'. Climbing up the farther side of the sow and on the r. are Lord Ellenborough in his wig, Lord Fitzwilliam, and Moira who scampers on the creature's back."--British Museum online catalogue.

Zustand: Good. Handcolored etching on wove paper. Trimmed at the platemark.Sheet size 24.7 x 35.2 cm. Signed and dated in the plate lower right.Publisher name lower right.References: British Museum BM 8984; Met Museum Accession Number: 1976.602.23.The Feast of Reason. . . shows five notable Whigs siting at a table engaged in what can only very broadly be described as conversation. They include (from left to right) George Hanger, the longtime carousing companion of the Prince of Wales, with spilled glass and his trademark bludgeon in his boot, Charles James Fox, the Whig opposition leader (with his back to us), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright, ardent Whig, and perennial debtor, looking (as usual in Gillray's prints) furtive and unreliable, the diminutive Michael Angelo Taylor, Member of Parliament, Whig supporter, and frequent subject in Gillray's prints after 1793, and finally John Courtenay, a sarcastic speaker in Parliament, and member of both the Whig Club and Brooks's.Yale University library:"The feast of reason & the flow of soul", i.e., The wits of the age setting the table in a roar.