• block for the wigs - or - The new state whirligig
  • A block for the wigs - or - The new state whirligig

Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
  • Gillray, James, 1756-1815
Call number:
  • D West 50/GC108/Box 05/Normal/Titles A GA 2006.01344
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 25 x 35 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • Caricatures and cartoons
Description:
  • Medium: Etchings
  • Inscribed in plate, upper left: "Poor John Bull's house plundered at noon day".
  • Provenance: Stamped on verso, "Princeton University // Library // Presented by // Dickson Q. Brown '95".
  • Unsigned.
Publisher:
  • London : [s.n.], 1783/05/05.
Subject:
  • Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Caricature
  • Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806—Caricatures and cartoons
  • George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820—Caricatures and cartoons
  • John Bull (Symbolic character)—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796—Caricatures and cartoons
  • North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Political cartoons—Great Britain—18th century
  • Great Britain—Kings and rulers—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Date:
  • 1783
References:
  • British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, [1978]. No. 6227
Range label:
  • Main Structure
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
Location:
  • GA D West 50/GC108/Box 05/Normal/Titles A GA 2006.01344
  • GA Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 D West 50/GC108/Box 05/Normal/Titles A GA 2006.01344
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/v979v316c
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