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James Gillray
1756-1815
A keen-sighted politician warming his imagination / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
[London] : Pubd. June 13th 1795 by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street, [1795]
etching, hand colored
image: 300 x 239 mm; plate mark: 351 x 250 mm; sheet: 482 x 305 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.434
Notes
Text in two columns below caption title reads: "Lord-Pogy boasts no common share of head; "What plenteous stores of knowledge may contain "The spacious tenement of Pogy's brain! "Nature in all her dispensations wise, "Who form'd his head-piece of so vast a size, Hath not, 'tis true, neglected to bestow Its due proportion on the part below; And hence we reason, that to serve the state His top & bottom, may have equal weight."
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A companion print to BMSat 8656. Gren-ville stands on a hearth-rug, his back to a blazing fire, holding up to his face an open book inscribed: 'Fundamental Principles of Government for 1795' and raising his coat-tails to warm his enormous posterior.
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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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