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The nabob rumbled, or, A Lord Advocates amusement
Title
The nabob rumbled, or, A Lord Advocates amusement [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Pubd. Jan. 21, 1783, by E. D'Archery, St. James's Street, [21 January 1783]
Copyright Notice Date
[London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 18.7 x 22 cm, on sheet 59 x 43 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6169 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?]
Text in upper left margin: Political characters & caracatures of 1783. No. 1.
Provenance
Gift of Addison Van Name to Yale University Library, 1919.
Summary
Sir Thomas Rumbold is depicted vomiting his ill-gotten wealth into a chamber pot decorated with a thistle. Kneeling beside it and embracing the chamber pot is Henry Dundas, Lord Advocate of Scotland who oversaw the prosecution of Rumbold in 1782-3. Rumbold's ankles are chained to two weights signed "Sureties," a reference to restriction on his leaving the country before the case was dropped in 1783. He is supported by his son, Captain Rumbold of 1st Life Guards, dressed in his regimentals and wearing a gorget. Behind them, an Englishman gallops on an elephant saddled with an enormous bag signed "Roupees." An Indian sitting behind him is holding a tall parasol above his head.
Variant and related titles
Lord Advocates amusement
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 06, 2020
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1783.
Etchings - England - London - 1868.
Engravings - England - London - 1868.
Restrikes.
Also listed under
Field & Tuer, publisher.
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