A democrat, or, Reason & philosophy [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. March 1st, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
[1 March 1793]

Copyright Date:

[1 March 1793]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35 x 25 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8310
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 167

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to French Revolution -- Emblems: tricolor cockades -- French democrats -- Sansculottes -- Jacobins -- Expressions of speech: c̨a ira -- Weapons: daggers.
Old Print Shop ; June 1961; Acquisitions no.: 961-6-1-39.

Abstract:

"Fox, a ragged sansculotte with bloodstained hands and a dagger dripping blood thrust in his belt, sings "Ca ira!" He capers, right hand on his hip, left hand held up; expression and attitude suggest quasi-intoxication, a blast issues from his posteriors. On his forehead is a patch of sticking-plaster. He is unshaven and his body has a subhuman hairiness. He wears the ill-fitting wig of an artisan, with a tricolour cockade."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Reason & philosophy

Associated Names:

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

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Harvey, Francis
Riviere & Son

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1793
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1793

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

793.03.01.01

Orbis Record:

7942099

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr07741

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10957343

PID:

digcoll:550994