A keen-sighted politician finding out the British conquests [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

Creator:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[8 June 1795]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 32.9 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 35 x 27 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: chairs -- Inkstands -- Maps -- Shortsightedness -- Pictures amplifying subject: View of the Treasury building -- Pictures amplifying subject: Britannia's chariot -- Literature: reference to John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

Abstract:

"A companion print to BMSat 8659. Grenville seated in an ornate armchair peers near-sightedly at a map of 'The Globe' in two hemispheres which he holds up to his face. The eastern hemisphere, at which he is not looking, shows an exaggeratedly large tract of 'French Conquests'. His posteriors and legs, very solid in BMSat 8659, are thin. He sits before a light rectangular table on which are ink-stand and pens and two books, 'Court Calender' and 'Locke on Human Understanding' (as in BMSat 8659). On the wall are two pictures, the subjects merely indicated: 'The Treasury' (left) shows the arched gate and stone wall of many satires; 'Brittania Triumphant': Britannia seated with spear and shield. A patterned carpet completes the design. Grenville fixes his attention on scarcely visible successes in the W. Indies, ignoring the French conquests in Europe. The 'Court Calender' and 'The Treasury' indicate eagerness for the perquisites of office, cf. BMSat 8061 (1792)."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville,--Baron,--1759-1834--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
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:

795.06.08.01
Auchincloss Gillray v. 3

Orbis Record:

8044548

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr08561

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8656

OID:

11105856

PID:

digcoll:976563