Ecce homo [graphic].

Published/Created:

Bethel [i.e. London?]
Published as the act directs by Danl. Demoniae
1775

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & engraving ; sheet 20 x 25 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5318

Notes:

Title etched below text.
Text beneath image: "Be it known to all men that I -- upon just cause before God and men do declare & pronounce war with and against all and every printshop and printseller within and without the city of London...."
Text on shield is a quote from John Gay's My own epitaph: Life's a jest and all things show it. I thought it once, but now I know it.
At bottom of plate: B--b--y.
Attributed to Francesco Bartolozzi. See British Museum catalogue.
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-3-210.
Cropped within plate mark. Numbered in ink by an unidentified hand: 46.

Abstract:

Depicts a furious man (William Austin) on a sidewalk, shouting "Damn your foollish [sic] caricatures" as he attacks the windows of Matthias Darly's London printshop with his walking-stick. On his left arm he carries a portfolio as a shield (emblazoned with a broken anchor). From it fall papers and drawings, including a prescription (suggestive of madness) from Dr. Monrow (i.e. John Monro, physician of Bethlehem Hospital). One print in the shop window echoes the present image, while Austin's "Proposals for opening a museum of drawings" is trodden underfoot by a dog in the foreground.

Associated Names:

Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815 [atrributed name]

Topics:

Austin, William, 1721-1820
Coats of arms
Darly, Matthias
Dogs
Mental illness
Monro, John, 1715-1791
Prints
Shields
Stores & shops -- England -- London
Window displays -- England -- London

Topics:

Gay, John, 1685-1732

Language:

English

Genre:

Allusions -- 1775
Engravings -- England -- London -- 1775
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1775

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

775.00.00.17

Orbis Record:

6350109

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr03901

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10716333

PID:

digcoll:291979