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James Gillray
1756-1815
The dog tax / X.
[London] : Pubd. April 12th 1796 by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
etching, hand colored
image: 300 x 235 mm; plate mark: 356 x 250 mm; sheet: 460 x 300 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.407
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By James Gillray.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows two dogs with the heads of Sheridan and Fox hanging from a gibbet inscribed 'not Paid for'. Two other dogs with the heads of Pitt and Dundas stand beneath, looking up at them with complacent triumph, these are 'To be Paid for'. The gibbet is formed of two uprights with a cross-bar. Fox has a fox's brush. He urinates upon Dundas who is immediately beneath him, facing Pitt. Dundas is a fat mongrel, Pitt a lean greyhound
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Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
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