The wine duty, or, The triumph of Bacchus & Silenus [graphic] : with John Bulls remonstrance / J. Gy. d. et f.

Creator:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[20 April 1796]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 35.0 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 38 x 27 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: wine duty, 1796 -- Mythology: Bacchus -- Silenus -- Containers: wine casks -- Allusion to Treasury.

Abstract:

"A tun of 'Wine' lies on solid trestles inscribed 'Treasury Bench'. From its huge bung-hole emerges the naked body of Pitt, as Bacchus, crowned with vine branches. He leans back tipsily, a brimming glass in each hand. Behind him stands Dundas as Silenus, fat, and partly draped in tartan; his right hand grasps Pitt's shoulder, in his left he holds up a brimming glass. He also is crowned with vine branches. Bunches of grapes hang down from a vine above their heads and are indicated as a background to the cask whose trestles are on a dais covered with a fringed carpet. Opposite the tun stands John Bull in profile to the left, looking up at Pitt, hat in hand; in his left hand is a lank purse, under his arm three empty bottles. He is a yokel, with lank hair and hydrocephalic head, wearing a smock and wrinkled gaiters. He says: "Pray Mr Bacchus have a bit of consideration for old John; - you know as how I've emptied my Purse already for you - & its waundedly hard to raise the price of a drop of Comfort, now that one's got no Money left for to pay for it!!!" Pitt says: "Twenty Pounds a T-Tun, ad-additional Duty i-i-if you d-d-don't like it at that, why t-t-t-then Dad & I will keep it all for o-o-our own Drinking, so here g-g-goes old Bu-Bu-Bull & Mouth!!! - "."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Triumph of Bacchus & Silenus
Triumph of Bacchus and Silenus

Topics:

John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Melville, Henry Dundas,--Viscount,--1742-1811--Caricatures and cartoons.
Pitt, William,--1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Riviere & Son Binding.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1796.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1796.
Watermarks (Paper)--J Taylor.--CtY-LW

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

796.04.20.02+
Auchincloss Gillray v. 4

Orbis Record:

8068231

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr08768

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8798
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 202

OID:

11105991

PID:

digcoll:976693