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print
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satirical print
Object Type
print
satirical print
Museum number
1851,0901.1186
Title
Object:
John Bull and the sinking-fund-a Pretty scheme for reducing the Taxes & Paying-off the National Debt!-
Description
(For description see other impression). 23 February 1807 Hand-coloured etching
Producer name
Print made by:
James Gillray
Published by:
Hannah Humphrey
School/style
British
Production date
1807
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
hand-coloured
Dimensions
Height:
238 millimetres
Width:
340 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(10704)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
satire
Associated names
Associated with:
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
Associated with:
George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
Associated with:
George Canning
Associated with:
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and 2nd Marquess of Londonderry
Associated with:
Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough
Associated with:
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
Associated with:
Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany and Bishop of Osnabrück
Associated with:
William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville
Associated with:
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
Associated with:
George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine
Associated with:
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Associated with:
Henry Richard Fox Vassall, 3rd Baron Holland
Associated with:
Mrs Dorothy Jordan
Associated with:
James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale
Associated with:
Charles Long, Baron Farnborough
Associated with:
Francis Rawdon Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira
Associated with:
Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk
Associated with:
Right Hon Spencer Perceval
Associated with:
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
Associated with:
William Pitt the Younger
Associated with:
Right Hon George Rose
Associated with:
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Associated with:
George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer
Associated with:
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley
Associated with:
William IV, King of the United Kingdom
Associated with:
William Windham
Associated with:
Richard Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
Acquisition name
Donated by:
William Smith, the printseller
Acquisition date
1851
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1851,0901.1186