The hustings [graphic] / X.

Creator:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[21 May 1796]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.3 x 26.0 cm, on sheet 38 x 30 cm

Notes:

One line of text below title: Vox populi, "We'll have a mug! A mug! A mug! Mayor of Garret.
Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.

Abstract:

"Fox addresses a proletarian mob from some point apparently under the portico of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. He stands behind a railing, and bends forward, hat in hand, clasping to his breast the 'Pewter-Pot Bill', saying, "Ever guardian of your most sacred rights, I have opposed the Pewter-Pot-Bill!!!" The crowd look up at him, cheering and shouting "a Mug, a Mug". They wear blue and buff favours. In the foreground are half-length figures of a little chimney-sweep with the name 'C. Fox Westminster' on the front of his cap (by the Act of 1788 these boys had to wear their master's name on their cap), and of a pot-boy, with a string of pewter pots slung to his shoulder; he holds up a foaming pot towards Fox inscribed 'Jack Slang - Tree of Liberty Petty France'. The same inscription is indicated on his pots. Beneath the title: 'Vox populi, - "We'll have a Mug! - a Mug! - a Mug! - Mayor of Garret' A quotation from Foote's comedy (1763)."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1796.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1796.

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. 4

Orbis Record:

8081247

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

11824017

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8804
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 203

Extent of digitization:

Complete folder digitized.

OID:

11823811

PID:

digcoll:3999970