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"Crumbs of comfort", or, Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children
Title
"Crumbs of comfort", or, Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children [graphic] / J. Gillray fecit.
Publication
[London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.9 x 36 cm, on sheet 59 x 43 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue published ca. August 1782, see no. 6027 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]
Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 41.
Provenance
Gift of Addison Van Name to Yale University Library, 1919.
Summary
The Devil stands at the center of a mountain top with outstretched wings, dressed in lawyers wig and bands, but with horns on his head and feet with claws. On the left Fox kneels, eagerly receiving from Satan a dice box and dice, an allusion to his notorious gambling habit, while on the right Burke receives a scourge and rosary, a reference to his supposed Catholicism. A satire on the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment.
Variant and related titles
Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 05, 2020
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1782.
Etchings - England - London - 1868.
Restrikes.
Also listed under
Field & Tuer, publisher.
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