• Uncorking old sherry

Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
  • Gillray, James, 1756-1815
Call number:
  • D West 50/GC108/Box 08/Normal/Titles P-Z GA 2006.01477
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 1 item ; plate 36.5 x 25.3 cm. sheet 37.3 x 29.4 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • Caricatures and cartoons
Description:
  • Medium: Etchings, Aquatints, Hand coloring
  • Inscribed in plate, below: 'Uncorking Old Sherry // the hon Gent. thot he does not very often address the House, yet when he does, he always thinks proper to pay off all arrears, & like // a Bottle just upper centerrks bursts all at once, into an Explosion of Fro.
  • Provenance: Stamped on verso, "Princeton University // Library // Presented by // Dickson Q. Brown '95".
  • Signed in plate, lower center: "Js. Gillray inv & fect.".
Publisher:
  • London : [s.n.], 1805/03/10.
Subject:
  • Burdette, Francis, Sir, 1770-1844—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Caricature
  • Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Pitt, William, 1759-1806—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Political cartoons—Great Britain—19th century
  • Prime ministers—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Tierney, George, 1761-1830—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Windham, William, 1750-1810—Caricatures and cartoons
Date:
  • 1805
References:
  • Grego, pp. 317-318
  • Hill. Fashionable Contrasts, plate 42.
  • BM 10375
Range label:
  • Main Structure
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
Location:
  • GA D West 50/GC108/Box 08/Normal/Titles P-Z GA 2006.01477
  • GA Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 D West 50/GC108/Box 08/Normal/Titles P-Z GA 2006.01477
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/td96k261x
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