Copenhagen House [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

Creator:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[16 November 1795]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 25 x 35 cm, on sheet 28 x 39 cm

Notes:

One line of quoted text, running on both sides of title: "I tell you, citizens, we mean to new-dress the Constitution and turn it, and set a new nap upon it." Shakspeare.
Title etched below image.

Abstract:

"A large and plebeian crowd is being addressed from three roughly made platforms, one being in the middle distance, another in the background. In the foreground (right) a man, supposed to be Thelwall, leans from his rostrum in profile to the left, shouting, with clenched fists, and raised right arm. Behind him stands a ragged barber, a comb in his lank hair, holding out a paper: 'Resolutions of the London Corresponding Society'. Next him, a man with the high-crowned hat and bands of a dissenting minister holds a tattered umbrella over the orator. A man on the steps leading to the platform, wearing a bonnet-rouge (the only one in the crowd) has a vague resemblance to Fox. From the next platform (left) a butcher, supposed to be Gale Jones, bawls at the crowd with raised right arm. Beside him stand a man holding a scroll inscribed 'Rights of Citizens'. The third orator is a tiny figure (Hodgson) with both arms raised. All the platforms are surrounded by crowds, and hats and arms are being waved by those addressed by the butcher. In the foreground (left) a man sits holding out for signature a document which is supported on a barrel of 'Real Democratic Gin by Thelwal & Co.' Three little chimney-sweepers stand round it, one of whom, holding a pen, has just made his mark on the 'Remonstrance', below the signatures of 'Jack Cade', 'Wat Tyler', 'Jack Straw'. All wear caps with the name of their master on a brass plate (according to the Chimney-Sweepers' Act of 1788); this is 'Thelwall'. A fat woman sells a dram to one of the crowd. Another presides over a portable roulette or E.O. table, a 'teetotum', inscribed 'Equality & no Sedition Bill'; three barefooted urchins are staking their pence. The heads in general do not appear to be portraits, but in the centre of the design, with his back to the woman selling drams, is Priestley, caricatured, standing with folded arms facing Thelwall. There is a landscape background with trees up which spectators have climbed. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Butchers.
Chimney sweeps.
Crowds.
Freedom of the press--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
Meetings--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
Petition, Right of.
Podiums.
Political crimes and offenses--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
Political parades & rallies.
Sedition--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
Working class.

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Hodgson, Richard,--1760-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Jones, John Gale,--1769-1838--Caricatures and cartoons.
London Corresponding Society.
Priestley, Joseph,--1733-1804--Caricatures and cartoons.
Thelwall, John,--1764-1834--Caricatures and cartoons.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1795.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1795.

Format:

Image

Rights:

The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Auchincloss Gillray v. 3

Orbis Record:

8049647

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

11811514

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8685
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 193

Extent of digitization:

Complete folder digitized.

OID:

11811444

PID:

digcoll:3999806