print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1864,0213.488
- Title
- Object: James Gillray. The Caricaturist
- Description
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A bust portrait of Gillray directed to the right and looking (left) at the spectator. It closely resembles, but is not identical with, the miniature of himself in the National Portrait Gallery, twice engraved and often reproduced. The background is a wall on which are prints by Gillray: behind his head (left) is BMSat 7867 (1791), of Paine measuring the Crown; the pendant is BMSat 8659. Both are reversed. Four other prints, two above and two below, are merely indicated. ? c.1800
Hand-coloured etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1800 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 175 millimetres
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Width: 126 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)
The original pencil drawing is in the Print Room. The design is oval, the head is directed to the left, and the prints are not reversed.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1864,0213.488
