Boston Public LibraryJames Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings / English Caricature and Political Satire, 18th and 19th Centuries / British Artists
Meeting of the monied Interest. Constitutional opposition to ye 10 pr cent - ie - John Bulls friends alarm'd by the new tax
Meeting of the monied Interest. Constitutional opposition to ye 10 pr cent - ie - John Bulls friends alarmd by the new tax
Item Information
- Title:
- Meeting of the monied Interest. Constitutional opposition to ye 10 pr cent - ie - John Bulls friends alarm'd by the new tax
- Title (alt.):
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Meeting of the monied Interest. Constitutional opposition to ye 10 per cent, i.e. John Bull's friends alarmed by the new tax
- Description:
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Fox stands, declaiming violently to his supporters, who surround him. He holds out a paper. His clenched right fist is raised. He is dishevelled and ragged, with a padlocked 'Begging Box' slung round his shoulder. Erskine stands beside him in profile to the left, holding a brief-bag. M. A. Taylor, like a small fat boy, is wearing a tricolour suit and a bonnet-rouge in the form of a fool's cap and looking up at Fox. Tierney, wearing a ragged coat, stands in profile to the right. Next Tierney stands Horne Took (he lived largely on the bounty of his friends). On the right, behind Erskine, are the Duke of Bedford, dressed as a jockey, and Norfolk, a bottle of Port in each waistcoat pocket. Derby is in hunting-dress. Nicholls peers through a glass. On the extreme right stands Burdett. On the left, outside the Foxite circle, stand four others. Sinclair, barefooted and wearing a kilt and plaid, scratches his arm. George Walpole, very thin, and wearing his enormous cocked hat with clenched fists (he had been Tierney's second and had taken a leading part in suppressing an insurrection of maroons in Jamaica in 1795). Moira stands stiffly erect. Pulteney, on the extreme left, peers through an eye-glass. Behind Fox are two silent supporters: (left) Stanhope (or perhaps Grafton) and (right) Sir George Shuckburgh, full-face (BM).
- Artist:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815
- Name on Item:
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Js. Gillray Invt.
- Date:
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December 1798
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Caricatures
Satires (Visual works)
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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James Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Government officials
Politicians
Nobility
Authors
Military officers
Mathematicians
John Bull (Symbolic character)
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
Tierney, George, 1761-1830
Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802
Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816
Walpole, George, 1758-1835
Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834
Pulteney, William
Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804
Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; plate mark 22 x 29 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z111m39b
- Terms of Use:
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No Copyright - United States
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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London :
Published by John Miller, Bridge Street & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Alternative title from Wright/Evans.
BM Satires 9282; Wright/Evans 216
Additional information accompanying item: From the 1824 Gillray collection of copies, etched and published by John Miller and W. Blackwood.
- Notes (acquisition):
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Gift; Louis Black; December 1953
- Notes (date):
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Date from item.
Reproduction. Date indicated is Gillray's original publication date.
- Notes (citation):
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Stephens, Frederic George, George, Mary Dorothy. "Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum." British Museum Press, 1870, London.
Wright, Thomas, R. H. Evans. "Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray." Benjamin Blom, 1968, New York.
- Identifier:
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18_17_000081
- Barcode:
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36666004443558
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