"The friend of the people" & his petty-new tax-gatherer paying John Bull a visit

"The friend of the people" & his petty-new tax-gatherer paying John Bull a visit

Item Information

Title:
"The friend of the people" & his petty-new tax-gatherer paying John Bull a visit
Title (alt.):
The friend of the people & his petty new tax-gatherer paying John Bull a visit
Description:
Fox and Lord Henry Petty stand at the door of a ramshackle tenement house. A distressed family look down at them from an open casement window over the door. Petty's hand is on the knocker. He holds a large open book. Behind his ear a pen. Fox puts both hands on a book. Between door and window is a board. The angry John, much disheveled, holds open the window to shout down. Fox answers and in his coat pocket is a large money-bag. Behind John stands woman holding an infant in each arm, another child gnaws a bone. Two others, one with a skull-like head, look from the window. On the ground floor (l.) is a shuttered window. The window above it has been bricked up to escape the tax; a lean cat looks from the casement under the eaves. From the window above John Bull (a corner only visible) hang a ragged shirt and stockings. A lamp projecting from the house (a corner one) is broken. Against the wall beside the door (r.) is a pump at which are three ragged children: a little boy pumps, another kneels to put his mouth to the gushing water, while a little girl with a raw turnip eagerly waits her turn. By the children lie a hoop-stick and a hoop from a barrel. On the left, are barrels. Across the road (l.) is a pawnshop with the sign of the three balls. In the upper windows of the prosperous shop are piles of moneybags (BM).
Artist:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815
Name on Item:
Js. Gillray, Invt. & fect.
Date:
May 28, 1806
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Aquatints
Engravings
Caricatures
Satires (Visual works)
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Politicians
Nobility
Tenement houses
John Bull (Symbolic character)
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863
Extent:
1 print : hand-colored etching, engraving, and aquatint ; plate mark 35 x 25 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z111k016
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
27 St. James Street : Pubd. by H. Humphrey
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Alternative title from Wright/Evans.
BM Satires 10571; Wright/Evans 321
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Louis Black; December 1953
Notes (date):
Date from item.
Notes (citation):
Stephens, Frederic George, George, Mary Dorothy. "Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum." British Museum Press, 1870, London.
Wright, Thomas, R. H. Evans. "Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray." Benjamin Blom, 1968, New York.
Identifier:
18_17_000120
Barcode:
36666003787393