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Auchincloss
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Gillray
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2:62
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Gillray, James,
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1756-1815,
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printmaker.
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4
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The balance of power, or, "The posterity of the immortal Chatham turn'd posture master"
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[graphic].
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Posterity of the immortal Chatham turned posture master
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[London] :
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Publishd. April 21st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond St.,
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[21 April 1791]
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1 print :
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etching ;
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plate mark 34.5 x 24.5 cm, on sheet 38.0 x 27.5 cm
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still image
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rdacontent
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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sheet
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rdacarrier
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wove paper
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hand-colored.
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"Pitt, very thin and elongated, poises on one toe on a tight-rope; he holds a long balancing-pole in both hands, on one end (left) sits the Sultan, on the other (right) Catherine II. The Turk, whose end of the pole is slightly the lower, clutches it desperately, saying, "My dear Billy, do help me to make another push, & I'll give you - half of my Seraglio". The fat Empress sits with her hands on her hips; she wears a crown, in her right hand is a sceptre, in her left a paper inscribed 'New Russian Conquests'. She says "Both Billy - the Flat, & yourself may do your worst you circumcised dog! get me down if you can! - I'll match you all, & swallow Thousands more!" Pitt stands with his head raised arrogantly in profile to the right; he says, "The old Hag cannot move me, & Seraglios cannot bribe me: - I have nothing to do with these matters - my Pole will always remain level - ". On the ground beneath the rope stands a dwarfish Sheridan (right) in profile to the left, grotesquely caricatured as a clown; he wears trousers and long sleeves which cover his hands and hang down. He says: "O! the Devil! the Devil! The Cow leaps over the Moon! And if I could once get up on the Rope, Lord! I'd fill my Pockets soon: - I mean, I would soon bring her down: fol der lol, fol der ol"."--British Museum online catalogue.
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Title etched below image.
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Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
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Text following title: Vide Sherridans speech.
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Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum,
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http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q107429911
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v. 6, no. 7846
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Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist,
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http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q107430048
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p. 125
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From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
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Mounted on leaf 62 of volume 2 of 12.
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0
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Catherine
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II,
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Empress of Russia,
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1729-1796
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Caricatures and cartoons.
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0
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Selim
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III,
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Sultan of the Turks,
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1761-1808
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Caricatures and cartoons.
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Pitt, William,
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1759-1806
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Caricatures and cartoons.
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,
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1751-1816
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Caricatures and cartoons.
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Great Britain
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Foreign relations
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1789-1820
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Humor.
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Satires (Visual works)
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England
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1791.
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gmgpc
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7
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Etchings
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England
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London
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1791.
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gmgpc
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Riviere & Son
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Binding.
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
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Ownership.
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Harvey, Francis
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Ownership.
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Humphrey, Hannah,
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active 1774-1817,
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publisher.
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Beinecke Library
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BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) >> Auchincloss Gillray v. 2|DELIM|12587238
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