Het committè der hooge, laagen en middelbaare heerlykheeden [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Physical Description:
1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 27.6 x 22.0 cm, on sheet 37 x 27 cm + 1 sheet ([1] page)
Notes:
Title etched below image.
Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue.
One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata.
Plate numbered "10" in upper left corner.
With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English.
Temporary local subject terms: Holland: civil discord -- Committees: law -- Storks -- Eels -- Ducks -- Tortoises.
Abstract:
"A water-side scene with a broken tree (right) in the middle distance. A stork stands with an eel in its mouth looking down at a duck; a tortoise walks off. 'Jamais les Droits Seigneuriaux n'ont mieuxêté administré que depuis que la bassecour s'en mêle. 'Pourquoi ce jeune arbrisseau meurt-il? . . . On a coupé ses racines; il aurait pu devenir trop haut. II faut de l'égalité dans les républiques.' Text, 'Jeremiah', xiii. 18."--British Museum online catalogue.
Topics:
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Hess, David, 1770-1843, artist.
Riviere & Son Binding.
Language:
Dutch; Flemish
English
French
Genre:
Etchings--England--London--1796.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1796.
Format:
Image
Rights:
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Call Number:
796.00.00.15
Orbis Record:
8057214
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr08671
Citation:
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8855
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 373
OID:
11105927
PID:
digcoll:976629