Smelling out a rat, or, The atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations" [graphic] : vide a troubled conscience / J. Gillray, del. ; F.W. Fairholt, F.S.A. sc.

Published/Created:

[London]
[J.C. Hotten?]
[1868?]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 12 x 19 cm

Notes:

Title from caption below image.
Plate from: Caricature history of the Georges ... / by Thomas Wright .... London : J.C. Hotten, [1868], p. 452.
Reduced copy of a print with the same title by Gillray, published by H. Humphrey in 1790. See no. 7686 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Joseph W. Reed.
Figure of Richard Price identified by ms. note in pencil below image.

Abstract:

Dr. Price, seated in a armchair at a writing desk strewn with papers and quill pens, turns his head, a startled look on his face, as he confronts the enormous spectacled face of Edmund Burke peering at him, his long nose resting on the back of Price's chair. Burke holds in his hands a crucifix and crown and balances on his head a copy of his book "Reflections on the revolution in France". Two books lay on the floor-- "Treatise on the ill effects of Order & governance in Society" and "Sermon preached Novr. 4, 1789 ... before the Revolution Society."

Variant Titles:

Atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations"

Associated Names:

Fairholt, F. W. 1814-1866 [Printmaker]
Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Artist]

Topics:

Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Crowns
Crucifixes
Ghosts
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820 -- Humor
Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Studies (Rooms)

Language:

English

Genre:

Annotations (Provenance) -- 19th century
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1868
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1790

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

868.00.00.02 Impression 1

Orbis Record:

9923051

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr14470

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10972088

PID:

digcoll:2754350