Scotch-Harry's news, or, Nincumpoop in high glee [graphic] : vide news from India.

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. May 23d, 1792, by H. Humphrey
[23 May 1792]

Copyright Date:

[23 May 1792]

Physical Description:

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

Related Links:

Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 145

Notes:

Title from text in image.
Printmaker from description of an earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.
Later state of a print originally published with the imprint: Pubd. May 23d, 1792, by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Fields. Cf. No. 8094 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the fall of Seringapatam -- Allusion to Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799 -- Allusion to the 3rd Mysore War, 1790-1792 -- Windsor uniforms.
Old Print Shop; June 1961; Acquisitions no.: 961-6-1-34.

Abstract:

"The heads and shoulders of the King and Queen (left) and of Dundas (right) face each other; Dundas holds a letter with a broken seal postmarked Bristol; he leans forward with a satisfied and cunning smile, saying, "Seringapatam is taken! Tippo is wounded! & Millions of Pagodas secured." He wears a plaid across his shoulders and a legal wig. The King and Queen, much caricatured, have expressions of surprised delight; George III, who wears a hunting-cap, raises his hands, saying, "Tally ho! ho! ho! ho!" Queen Charlotte, beside and behind him, says, "O the dear, sweet Pagodas"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition.

Variant Titles:

Nincumpoop in high glee

Associated Names:

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

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Harvey, Francis
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Riviere & Son

Language:

English

Genre:

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

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

792.05.23.01

Orbis Record:

7816453

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr07470

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10732783

PID:

digcoll:553460