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print
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satirical print
Object Type
print
satirical print
Museum number
1935,0522.5
Title
Object:
Overthrow of the Republican-Babel.
Description
(For description see other impression). 1 May 1809 Hand-coloured etching
Producer name
Print made by:
James Gillray
Published by:
Hannah Humphrey
School/style
British
Production date
1809
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
hand-coloured
Dimensions
Height:
401 millimetres
Width:
310 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(11327)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
satire
Associated names
Associated with:
Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester
Associated with:
Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet
Associated with:
George Canning
Associated with:
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and 2nd Marquess of Londonderry
Associated with:
Mary Anne Clarke
Associated with:
William Cobbett
Associated with:
William Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor
Associated with:
Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany and Bishop of Osnabrück
Associated with:
Peter Finnerty
Associated with:
Harvey Christian Combe, Lord Combe
Associated with:
Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (Napoleon)
Associated with:
Right Hon Spencer Perceval
Associated with:
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
Associated with:
Mr Quin
Associated with:
Bill Soanes
Associated with:
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevento
Associated with:
Mary Anne Taylor
Associated with:
John Horne Tooke
Associated with:
Robert Waithman
Associated with:
Col Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle
Associated with:
West
Associated with:
Samuel Whitbread II
Associated with:
Wishart
Associated with:
Richard Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
Acquisition name
Transferred from:
British Library
Acquisition date
1935
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1935,0522.5