print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.6761
Title: Object: New Morality;-or- The Promis'd installment of the high-priest of the theophilanthropes, with the homage of leviathan and his suite.
Description: (For description see other impression). 1 August 1798 Etching.
Producer name: Print made by: James Gillray; Published by: John Wright
School/style: British
Production date: 1798
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 275 millimetres; Width: 620 millimetres
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Bibliographic references: BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (9240)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire
Associated names: Associated with: Sir Robert Adair; Associated with: Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford; Associated with: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (Napoleon); Associated with: Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet; Associated with: Edmund Burke; Associated with: George Byng; Associated with: Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Associated with: John Courtenay; Associated with: John Christian Curwen; Associated with: Erasmus Darwin; Associated with: Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby; Associated with: Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine; Associated with: Charles James Fox; Associated with: Sir Philip Francis; Associated with: William Godwin; Associated with: Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton; Associated with: Thomas Holcroft; Associated with: Benjamin Kingsbury; Associated with: Charles Lamb; Associated with: William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne; Associated with: Louis Marie de la Révellière-Lépeaux; Associated with: James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale; Associated with: Charles Lloyd; Associated with: Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre; Associated with: Sir James Mackintosh; Associated with: Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau; Associated with: Francis Rawdon Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira; Associated with: James Monroe; Associated with: Capt Charles Morris; Associated with: John Nicholls; Associated with: Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk; Associated with: Arthur O'Connor; Associated with: Jane Elizabeth Scott, Countess of Oxford; Associated with: Thomas Paine; Associated with: Dr Joseph Priestley; Associated with: Maximilien Robespierre; Associated with: Mary Robinson; Associated with: Jean Jacques Rousseau; Associated with: Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh Evelyn, 6th Baronet; Associated with: Charlotte Smith; Associated with: Robert Southey; Associated with: Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope; Associated with: John Hurford Stone; Associated with: Right Hon Michael Angelo Taylor; Associated with: John Thelwall; Associated with: George Tierney; Associated with: John Horne Tooke; Associated with: Voltaire; Associated with: Gilbert Wakefield; Associated with: Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff; Associated with: Samuel Whitbread II; Associated with: David Williams; Associated with: Helen Maria Williams; Associated with: Mary Wollstonecraft
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Edward Hawkins (estate of)
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.6761

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