Billy's Babel [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London?
s.n.]
published May 30th 1791

Physical Description:

1 print on laid paper : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 38 x 33 cm.

Notes:

Attributed to Cruikshank by cataloger based on other works of this artist in collection.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Budget: Pitt's budgets -- Figure of Britannia -- Clergy: bishops -- Taxes -- Quizzing glasses -- Allusion to Babel tower.
Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-5-157.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below and countermark J But[...]nshaw.
Mounted to 40 x 35 cm.

Associated Names:

Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811? [Printmaker]

Topics:

George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1791
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1791

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

791.05.30.01+

Orbis Record:

7772297

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr07169

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10732590

PID:

digcoll:553238