Meeting of unfortunate citoyens [graphic] / Js. Gy. inv. & ft.

Creator:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[12 May 1798]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 37 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.

Abstract:

"Fox and Norfolk meet on the pavement outside Brookes's. Fox (left), much caricatured, with his shaggy hair standing on end and stockings slipping down, says, with an expression of angry despair: "Scratch'd off! - dishd! - kick'dout! - dam'me!!!" Norfolk (right), with fingers outspread in dismay, answers: "How? what! - Kick'd out? - ah! morbleu! - chacun a son tour! morbleu! morbleu!" Fox holds in his right hand a paper: 'List of Privy Council C. J. Fox', the name scored through. From the pocket of his bulging waistcoat hangs a paper: 'Whig Toasts & Sentiment[s] Sovereignty of People - Jacobins of Ireland - French'. Under Norfolk's left arm is his baton of hereditary Earl Marshal; from his coat-pocket hangs a paper: 'Honours List Ld Lieutenant of Yorkshire] Colonelship of Militia'. Both wear small bonnets-rouges. Behind, Brooks's is indicated with the balcony; only one house separates it from the gateway of St. James's Palace, at which Pitt (right) and Dundas (left) stand as sentinels, in Grenadier uniform (with the addition in Dundas's case of a tartan plaid), each before his sentry box, and facing each other in profile. On the gateway (right) is a placard: 'Proclamation against Sedition & Treasonable Meetings'; on each sentry box is a proclamation headed 'GR'. On Pitt's box: 'Whereas . . . for carrying secret correspondence with ye French - God sa . . .'; on Dundas's box: 'Whereas . . . apprehension of Traitors . . . God save ye King'."--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.
Melville, Henry Dundas,--Viscount,--1742-1811--Caricatures and cartoons.
Norfolk, Charles Howard,--Duke of,--1746-1815--Caricatures and cartoons.
Pitt, William,--1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1798.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1798.

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:

8163463

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

11824063

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9205
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 235

Extent of digitization:

Complete folder digitized.

OID:

11823857

PID:

digcoll:4000265