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Spouting : "Strike home! and I will bless thee for the Blow!".

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James Gillray
1756-1815

Spouting : "Strike home! and I will bless thee for the Blow!".

[London] : Pubd. May 14th 1792 by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street, [1792]
etching with stipple, hand colored
image: 322 x 243 mm; plate mark: 351 x 253 mm; inlaid in sheet: 520 x 338 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.212
Notes
By James Gillray.
Evidently a burlesque of a lover's quarrel between Fox and Mrs. Armistead.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows Fox raising a dagger in his right hand, as if to strike the portly figure of Mrs. Armistead (later Elizabeth Fox). Both figures, especially that of Fox, have the exaggerated expressions of ranting actors in melodrama.

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints