The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. June 26th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
[26 June 1803]

Copyright Date:

[26 June 1803]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 37.0 x 28.2 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10019
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 298
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive ac

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Artist identified as Lt-Col Thomas Braddyll, a young amateur who supplied designs for satirical prints to James Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
Text following title: Vide Swift's Gulliver: Voyage to Brobdingnag.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge.
Joel Bergquist; December 2014.
Watermark: J. Ruse 1802.

Abstract:

"George III, half length, stands in profile to the left, a holding a tiny Napoleon on the palm of his right hand, and inspecting him through a spy-glass. He says: "My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable \ "panegyric upon Yourself and Country, but from what I can \ "gather from your own relation & the answers I have with \ "much pains wringed & extorted from you, I cannot but con- \ "-clude you to be one of the most pernicious, little - odious \ "-reptiles, that nature ever suffer'd to crawl upon the surface of the Earth." He wears military uniform with a bag-wig. The only background is a dark cloud-like shadow across the lower part of the design."--British Museum online catalogue.

Associated Names:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Braddyll, Thomas , 1776-1862 [Artist]
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817 [Publisher]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Harvey, Francis
Military uniforms -- British
Military uniforms -- French
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Riviere & Son
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Telescopes

Language:

English

Genre:

Aquatints -- England -- London -- 1803
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1803
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1803

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

803.06.26.01+

Orbis Record:

12318685

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr32191

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

15811090

PID:

digcoll:2793777