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James Gillray
1756-1815
An excrescence : A fungus alias a toadstool upon a dung-hill.
[London] : Pubd. Decr. 20th 1791 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, [1791]
etching, hand colored
image: 263 x 210 mm; plate: 277 x 227 mm; sheet: 277 x 242 mm
Peel 2758
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Printmaker from George.
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Print shows the head of William Pitt travestied as a fungus; his long neck represents the stalk, which grows out of a crown resting on a dunghill on which sprout three satellite toadstools.
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Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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