Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A tub for the whale! [copy 2].
Call Number
D West 50/GC108/Box 04/Normal/Titles A-Z GA 2006.01307
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/q237hs04m
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.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
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.'
Provenance: Stamped on verso, "Princeton University // Library // Presented by // Dickson Q. Brown '95".
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/838c3e9e-4324-499d-a276-f0b0cea1196a/manifest