Anticipation, or, The approaching fate of the French Commercial Treaty [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. Jany. 16th 1787 by Mrs. Jackson, Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
[16 January 1787]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 26.8 x 43.2 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7128
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 84

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue and Wright.
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-5-55.
Mounted to 31 x 49 cm.

Abstract:

"The interior of the House of Commons, the Speaker in his chair, the two clerks, Hatsell and Ley, writing at the table on which is the mace. The members are represented by dogs, some having human faces; in the foreground four ministerial hounds (left) and four opposition leaders (right) tear violently at a paper inscribed 'Commercial Treaty'. On the right benches opposition hounds are in hungry cry after their leaders, on the left the ministerialists are gnawing bones with eyes fixed on the contest. The four Government dogs, who have human faces, are Pitt, a lean greyhound, his collar inscribed 'Fawning-Billy'; next him Dundas, his collar 'Treasurer Navy'; next Pepper Arden, his collar 'At. Gen', and last, Archibald Macdonald, his collar 'Sol. G.' Opposite these are North, wearing his ribbon, gnawing greedily, and Fox tearing ferociously (these two have quasi-human heads), Burke, a dog wearing spectacles, and Sheridan, his collar inscribed 'Sc. for Scan[dal]'. Three yelping puppies fawn on Fox, one of whom is probably intended for Grey. Behind the Speaker's chair stand members of the House of Lords, scandalized at the uproar. Spectators look down from the galleries."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Approaching fate of the French Commerical Treaty

Associated Names:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Jackson, Elizabeth, fl. 1785-1797 [Publisher]

Topics:

Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Hatsell, John, 1743-1820
Macdonald, Archibald, Sir, 1747-1826
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Sheridan, R

Topics:

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1787
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1787

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

787.01.16.01.1+

Orbis Record:

7788445

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr06138

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10728247

PID:

digcoll:551133