The tree of liberty with the devil tempting John Bull [graphic] / Js. Gy. invt. & ft.

Published/Created:

[Weimar
Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs
1798]

Physical Description:

1 print on laid paper : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.9 x 17.7 cm., on sheet 28 x 22 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 7, no. 9214A

Notes:

Plate from: London und Paris. Weimar: Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1798, v. 2, opp. p. 216.
Numbered 'No. V' in upper right corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Liberty: tree of liberty -- Uniforms: Windsor uniform -- Literature: Thomas Paine's Rights of Man -- Vices -- Cap of liberty as bonnet rouge -- Serpents -- Reforms.
Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ; Acquisitions no.966-12-7-19.
Mounted to 33 x 40 cm.
Watermark (partially trimmed): Strasburg lily.

Associated Names:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
John Bull (Symbolic character) -- Caricatures and cartoons

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- Germany -- Weimar -- 1798
Satires (Visual works) -- Germany -- 1798
Watermarks (Paper)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

798.05.23.02

Orbis Record:

8165184

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09252

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10941174

PID:

digcoll:950794