Smelling out a rat, or, The atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations" [graphic] : vide a troubled conscience.

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. Decr. 3d, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
[3 December 1790]

Copyright Date:

[3 December 1790]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.0 cm, on sheet 26 x 36 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7686
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 123

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Old Print Shop ; Mar. 1961 ; Acquisitions no.: 961-3-1-297.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield.

Abstract:

Dr. Price, seated in a armchair at a writing desk strewn with papers and quill pens, turns his head, a startled look on his face, as he confronts the enormous spectacled face of Edmund Burke peering at him, his long nose resting on the back of Price's chair. Burke holds in his hands a crucifix and crown and balances on his head a copy of his book "Reflections on the revolution in France". Two books lay on the floor-- "Treatise on the ill effects of Order & governance in Society" and "Sermon preached Novr. 4, 1789 ... before the Revolution Society."

Variant Titles:

Atheistical revolutionist disturbed in his midnight calculations

Associated Names:

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

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Crowns
Crucifixes
Ghosts
Harvey, Francis
Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Riviere & Son
Studies (Rooms)

Topics:

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820 -- Humor

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1790
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1790

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

790.12.03.01

Orbis Record:

7756211

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr07029

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10732490

PID:

digcoll:553395