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Orange jumper / etch'd by J. Gillray.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

Orange jumper / etch'd by J. Gillray.

London : Pubd March 6th 1809 by H. Humphrey St James's Street, [1809]
etching, hand colored
image: 274 x 208 mm; sheet: 303 x 217 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.359
Inscriptions/Markings
Annotations in pencil on verso describing the subject of Gillray's caricature.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows Sir George Savile as an elderly man outside a building on which are posted election placards, holding out his (orange-coloured) hat in which is a favour and a ticket inscribed Milton. He is round-shouldered, long-waisted, and bandy-legged, wearing riding-dress with spurred top-boots, and a coat reaching nearly to his heels, with a fox embroidered on the collar. On the wall which forms a background is a placard: State of the Poll. Wilberforce 11808, Milton 11.177, Lascelles 10,990. Other placards are Steele Traps, No Pretender, No Popery [torn], No Melville No Plunder, No Slavery Milton for Ever. From a narrow board inscribed Etridge on the corner of the wall projects a flagstaff supporting a pennant inscribed Saville in large letters.

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