What a cur 'tis! [graphic].

Creator:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London] :
Pubd. June 9th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street,
[9 June 1795]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 29 x 25 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Text below title: Done from an original drawing by a British officer & publish'd as a guide to preferment.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: ship cabin -- Newspapers: Gazette -- Glass: wine bottles -- Glass: wine glasses -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Naval instruments: sextants -- Maps: map of Torbay -- Chamber pots -- Pets: dogs -- Smoking: pipes -- Naval uniforms: admiral's uniform -- Furniture: armchair.

Abstract:

"Lord Howe sits full-face in an armchair, reading a 'Gazette' headed 'June Ist 1795'. He wears naval uniform, with a hat, smokes a long pipe and scowls meditatively. A dog with the head of Sir Roger Curtis grovels at his feet, kissing his right toe; he has a collar inscribed 'Black Dick's Dog'. Behind Howe is a row of windows close together, with a view of the sea and ships. Beneath the windows is a broad shelf on which are wine-bottles, a sextant, and a punch-bowl. On a table at Howe's right hand are a glass of wine and a plan of Torbay."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

What a Curtis

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Curtis, Roger,--Sir,--1746-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Howe, Richard Howe,--Earl,--1726-1799--Caricatures and cartoons.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Riviere & Son Binding.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1795.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1795.

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

795.06.09.01
Auchincloss Gillray v. 3

Orbis Record:

8044572

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr08562

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8657
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 190

OID:

11105857

PID:

digcoll:976558