Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A tub for the whale! [copy 1].
Call Number
D West 49/GC108/Box 03/Normal/Titles A-Z GA 2006.01287
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x633f113w
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1806/03/14.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1806
Extent
1 item ; plate 24.7 x 35 cm. sheet 28 x 40.6 cm.
References
Grego, p. 330
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Inscribed in plate: 'A Tub for the Whale! // Representing an Empty Barrel tossed out to amuse the great Leviathan - John Bull in order to divert him from instantly laying violent hands upon the new Coalition Packet - Vide Swift's Preface to the Tale of a Tub.'
Signed in plate, lower left: "Js Gillray inv. & fec.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Ellenborough, Edward Law Earl of 1790-1871—Caricatures and cartoons
Erskine, Thomas Erskine Baron 1750-1823—Caricatures and cartoons
Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice Marquess of 1780-1863—Caricatures and cartoons
Political cartoons—Great Britain—19th century
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 1751-1816—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6be3ecb1-a1b2-4ec6-8170-cb0fa4311134/manifest