print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1937,0719.5
- Title
- Object: Democracy;-or-a Sketch of the Life of Buonaparte.
- Description
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Copies of two of the scenes in BMSat 9543, extracted from 'The Caricatures of Gillray', where they faced p.128. after 1800
Etching.
- Production date
- 1800 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 220 millimetres
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Width: 285 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)
Copies of [1] and [2], as 'Pl. 1' and 'Pl. 2', face p. 128, of [3] and [4], as 'Plate. 3.' [In Print Room] and 'Plate. 4.', [In Print Room] are after p. 164, of [5] and [6], as 'N° 5' and 'N° 6', face p. 160 of 'The Caricatures of Gillray'.
(Supplementary information)
On this sheet there are two designs, plate 3 and 4, taken from Democracy print. for which see (1851,0901.1030 and 1868,0808.6885)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1937
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1937,0719.5
