Boston Public LibraryJames Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings / English Caricature and Political Satire, 18th and 19th Centuries / British Artists
The National Assembly revivified
Item Information
- Title:
- The National Assembly revivified
- Description:
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Designed in two compartments [with The National Assembly Petrified], one above the other, the figures in both being three quarter length. Here, a group of ruffians listen with delight to a cook (left) who takes a pinch of snuff and capers. In his cap is a tricolour cockade inscribed 'Liberty.' He wears over-sleeves, a spoon and fork are stuck through his apron-string, a string of frogs hangs from his belt. His most prominent listener is a shoe-black with a grotesquely wide grin, who stands, shoe in one hand, brush in the other. These much-caricatured ragamuffins are typical of the French republicans depicted by Gillray: at once ludicrous and horrible (BM). / This is a clever and a rather celebrated caricature, on the dismay with which the violent democrats in Paris were struck when they were informed of the King's flight, and on their joy at the arrival of the intelligence of his arrest at Varennes (Wright/Evans).
- Artist:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815
- Name on Item:
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Jas. Gillray Invt.
- Date:
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June 28, 1791
- 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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Kings
Cooks
Gossiping
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; plate mark 22 x 29 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z111m11n
- Terms of Use:
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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.
BM Satires 7883; Wright/Evans 55
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 Wright/Evans.
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_000067
- Barcode:
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36666004443418
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