The British-butcher supplying John-Bull with a substitute for bread [graphic] : vide message to Lord Mayor / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

Creator:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[6 July 1795]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate marks 35.3 x 25 cm and 3.9 x 25 cm, on sheet 45 x 30 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Four lines of verse, titled Billy the Butcher's Advice to John Bull, etched on a separate plate that is printed below the plate with the image: Since bread is so dear, (and you say you must eat) ...
Temporary local subject terms: Trades: butchers -- Butcher's shops -- Food prices, 1795 -- Provisions prices, 1795 -- Journeymen's wages, 1795.

Abstract:

"Pitt (right), as a butcher, stands arrogantly behind his block, holding up a leg of mutton to a hungry, lean, and dismayed John Bull, who stands with bent knees (left), his right hand groping in his breeches pocket. Pitt says: "A Crown, - take it, or leave't". His cleaver lies on his blood-stained block, on the front of which are two placards side by side: 'Prices of Provision. 1795 Journeymans Wages - 1795 Mutton 10 1/2d £b. Carpenters 12sh pr Week Lamb 11 D° Shoemakers 10sh D° Veal 11 1/2 D° Bakers 9sh D° Beef 12 D° Gardeners 8sh D° Small Beer - 2d pr Quart Smiths 8sh D° Bread 12d Husbandmen 7sh D° pr Quarter Loaf God save the King'. Behind Pitt is the pent-house roof of the shop or stall from the front of which hang joints of meat and pieces of offal. The lower story of a house forms a background (left). John Bull wears the dress and wrinkled gaiters of a yokel. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

John Bull (Symbolic character)

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Pitt, William,--1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Riviere & Son Binding.

Language:

English

Genre:

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

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

795.07.06.01+
Auchincloss Gillray v. 3

Orbis Record:

8045585

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr08587

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8665
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 191

OID:

11105872

PID:

digcoll:976569