A man of importance

A man of importance

Item Information

Title:
A man of importance
Description:
Lord Moira, rigid and impassive, stands in profile to the left, right hand on his tasselled stick, left hand on hip, wearing quasi-military dress with looped cocked hat and high boots. Clouds, so coloured as to suggest a distant conflagration, and a low horizon, curved as if to indicate the edge of the globe, form a background (BM). / A nobleman frequently attacked by the Tory press of this period, on account of the part he took in Irish politics. The verses are taken from the Anti-Jacobin, a Tory journal remarkable for its bitterness. He voted, however, for the Union, in opposition to his own party, the Whigs, who were generally opposed to that measure (Wright/Evans).
Artist:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815
Date:
May 16, 1799
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Caricatures
Satires (Visual works)
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Series:
The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 3
Subjects:
Politicians
Nobility
Military officers
Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
Extent:
1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 26 x 39 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z111m83w
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
111 Cheapside, London : T. Tegg
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
BM Satires 9386; Wright/Evans 239
On item: 99.
Notes (acquisition):
The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
Notes (date):
Date from Wright/Evans.
Reproduction. Date indicated is Gillray's original publication date.
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.
Notes (object):
Bound in "The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 3," the third volume in a set of five published under this title by Thomas Tegg. The five volumes contained 251 prints in all.
Identifier:
18_03_000686
Barcode:
36666003261266