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State of the giraffe
Title
State of the giraffe [graphic] / [man with an umbrella] Esqr.
Publication
[London] : Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ..., [ca. July 1829]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 40.6 x 27.4 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched above image.
Plate signed in bottom left corner using William Heath's device [image of Paul Pry]: A man with an umbrella.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... where political and other caricature are dialy [sic] pub.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left side.
To the left of the small image of Paul Pry: I supose [sic] we shall have to pay for stuffing him next.
Text below image: Little hope is now entertaind. of the recovery of the giraffe - since the last attack he is unable to rise without the assistance of slings - every attention is paid him but tis fear'd without effect. Morning papers.
Summary
"The King's giraffe hangs limply from a sling which is suspended from a cross-beam supported on two uprights. George IV and Lady Conyngham push hard at a windlass to hoist up their pet. He has thrown off his coat and rolled up his shirt-sleeves; tight breeches define spherical posteriors. She looks up sentimentally at the animal, whose forelegs are swathed in stockings, with the feet in large shoes stamped with a crown. Beside it is an open chest of stoppered spirit bottles. A background of trees and grass indicates Windsor Park."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 21, 2020
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11, no. 15839
Subjects
Genre/Form
Artists' devices.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1829.
Etchings - England - London - 1829.
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