Het committè van rekening [graphic].

Creator:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[1796]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 27.6 x 22.0 cm, on sheet 38 x 28 cm + 1 sheet ([1] page)

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue.
One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata.
Plate numbered "5" in upper left corner.
With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English.
Temporary local subject terms: Frenchmen -- Dutchmen -- Committees: finance committee -- Holland: civil discord.

Abstract:

"Two French commissaries stand (left), each with a book under his arm, holding out their demands for assignments on the exchequer; one has a paper inscribed 'Payer'. Their president, as in BMSat 8849, shrugging his shoulders, answers 'Impossible!' Another man seated on a bale (right) counts on his fingers; before him are figures giving a total of 'o'. A third holds up a paper: '2 /2 /3/', looking at it through an eye-glass. On the wall is a 'Tafel van Multiplicatie' and beside it shelves in which are books and bundles of papers, one inscribed 'Pretentions des Trouppes Suisses'. A shelf is inscribed 'Insolvable'. Text, 'Ecclesiasticus, Jesus Sirach', xli. 24."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Hess, David, 1770-1843, artist.
Riviere & Son Binding.

Language:

Dutch; Flemish
English
French

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1796.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1796.

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

796.00.00.10
Auchincloss Gillray v. 12

Orbis Record:

8057001

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr08666

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8850
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 373

OID:

11105922

PID:

digcoll:976624