print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.12515
- Title
- Object: Mars
- Description
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See BMSat 9374, &c. George Walpole stands defiantly, head in profile to the right, feet splayed awkwardly. He wears Roman armour with medieval greaves and a huge sabre; in his left hand is a large oval shield, in his right he supports a vertical tilting-lance, the head of which is cut off by the upper margin. His fantastic helmet is partly a cocked hat with a tricolour cockade; on it crouches a simian demon with webbed wings and long barbed tail, wearing a cap like the cornucopia of BMSat 9374, and spitting fire. Behind him (left) is a gobbling turkey-cock. Clouds form a background. 7 May 1799
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1799
- Dimensions
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Height: 249 millimetres
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Width: 200 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)
Col. Walpole (temp. Major-General in the Maroon war in Jamaica) was M.P. for Derby 1797-1806, and a strong Foxite, though apparently a silent member. See BMSat 9218.
Grego, 'Gillray', p. 259. Wright and Evans, No. 232. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.12515