John Bull bother'd, or, The geese alarming the Capitol [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect. pro bono publico.

Edition:

[State with change in price].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. Decr. 19th 1792 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
[1792]

Physical Description:

1 print on wove paper : etching & aquatint, hand-colored ; sheet 32 x 40 cm.

Notes:

Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
In upper right corner of plate: Price 4 shills., the engraving not having been paid for by the Associations for vending two-penny scurrilities.
State, with price changed, of No. 6978 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Temporary local subject terms: Spyglasses -- Allusion to Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man -- Weapons: muskets with bayonettes -- Threat of the French invasion -- Favors: label 'God save the King' -- Favors: French tricolor cockade.
Frederick B. Daniell & Son ; Nov. 1962 ; Acquisitions no.: 962-11-1-3.
Mounted to 36 x 46 cm.

Variant Titles:

Geese alarming the Capitol
John Bull bothered

Associated Names:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817 [Publisher]

Topics:

Cannons
Fortifications
John Bull (Symbolic character)
Pitt, William, 1759-1806

Language:

English

Genre:

Aquatints -- England -- London -- 1792
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1792
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1792

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:

792.12.19.01.2+

Orbis Record:

7927238

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr07575

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10955510

PID:

digcoll:550415