Boston Public LibraryJames Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings / English Caricature and Political Satire, 18th and 19th Centuries / British Artists
"The friend of the people" & his petty-new tax-gatherer paying John Bull a visit
Item Information
- Title:
- "The friend of the people" & his petty-new tax-gatherer paying John Bull a visit
- Title (alt.):
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The friend of the people & his petty new tax-gatherer paying John Bull a visit
- Description:
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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. Behind his ear a pen. Fox puts both hands on a book. Between door and window is a board. The angry John, much disheveled, holds open the window to shout down. Fox answers and in his coat pocket is a large money-bag. 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. 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 projecting 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. By the children lie a hoop-stick and a hoop from a barrel. On the left, are barrels. Across the road (l.) is a pawnshop with the sign of the three balls. In the upper windows of the prosperous shop are piles of moneybags (BM).
- Artist:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815
- Name on Item:
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Js. Gillray, Invt. & fect.
- Date:
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May 28, 1806
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Aquatints
Engravings
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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Politicians
Nobility
Tenement houses
John Bull (Symbolic character)
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching, engraving, and aquatint ; plate mark 35 x 25 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z111k016
- 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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27 St. James Street :
Pubd. by H. Humphrey
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Alternative title from Wright/Evans.
BM Satires 10571; Wright/Evans 321
- Notes (acquisition):
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Gift; Louis Black; December 1953
- Notes (date):
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Date from item.
- 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_000120
- Barcode:
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36666003787393
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