print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1978,U.914
Title: Object: The introduction of the Pope to the convocation at Oxford, by the Cardunal Broad-Bottom.
Description: A copy, 'Js Gillray fect' and 'G. Cruikshank sculp', prepared for Hone's projected 'History of Parody'. Inscriptions and imprint as original, with 'the' before 'Old Alma Mater'. On the same plate as Nos. 8655 A, 9184 a, 9261 b. 1817 Etching
Producer name: Print made by: George Cruikshank; After: James Gillray
School/style
Production date: 1817
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 92 millimetres (image); Height: 251 millimetres (plate-mark); Width: 145 millimetres (plate-mark)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1978.U.909
Bibliographic references: BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (11384.A); Reid 1871 / A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank (711)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Associated with: George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham; Associated with: Henry Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich; Associated with: George Canning; Associated with: William Cleaver, Bishop of St Asaph; Associated with: George Nugent Grenville, 2nd Baron Nugent; Associated with: Thomas Grenville; Associated with: William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville; Associated with: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey; Associated with: Charles Moss, Bishop of Oxford; Associated with: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (Napoleon); Associated with: Pope Pius VII; Associated with: John Randolph, Bishop of London; Associated with: Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York; Associated with: Richard Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1891
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1978,U.914
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179

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