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Comic Art Collections
Several Princeton collections have strong holdings in comic art, cartoons, and pictorial satire. The Graphic Arts Collection has several thousand caricatures in the form of prints or drawings, mainly in the Dickson Q. Brown '95 Collection of Thomas Rowlandson and the Richard W. Meirs '88 Collection of George Cruikshank.
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Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in fine press,
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James Gillray Cartoons
James Gillray (1756–1815) was a British artist known for his caricatures and satirical prints.
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- Author
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815
- Language
- English
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- A decent story.
- Call Number
- D West 50/GC108/Box 04/Normal/Titles A-Z GA 2006.01306
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/r207tp42x
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- 1795
- Format
- Visual material
- Extent
- 1 print : etching with hand coloring ; sheet approximately 24 x 30.9 cm
- Provenance
- Princeton copy 1 Stamped on verso, "Princeton University // Library // Presented by // Dickson Q. Brown '95."
- Source Acquisition
- Princeton copy 1 Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
- Princeton copy 2 Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Princeton copy 1 Unsigned. Pencil note in lower right margin attributes the artist as Gillray.
- Princeton copy 2 Unsigned. Bound in scrapbook.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Comic Art Collections
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- James Gillray Cartoons
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0391c4d3-30b5-4f79-831b-07e7f25b8b13/manifest