The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver [graphic].

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Title
The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver [graphic].
Creator
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Braddyll, Thomas , 1776-1862, artist.
George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Swift, Jonathan,--1667-1745.--Gulliver's travels--Adaptations, parodies, etc.
Copyright Date
[26 June 1803]
Abstract

"George III, half length, stands in profile to the left, a holding a tiny Napoleon on the palm of his right hand, and inspecting him through a spy-glass. He says: "My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable \ "panegyric upon Yourself and Country, but from what I can \ "gather from your own relation & the answers I have with \ "much pains wringed & extorted from you, I cannot but con- \ "-clude you to be one of the most pernicious, little - odious \ "-reptiles, that nature ever suffer'd to crawl upon the surface of the Earth." He wears military uniform with a bag-wig. The only background is a dark cloud-like shadow across the lower part of the design."--British Museum online catalogue.

Description
Artist identified as Lt-Col Thomas Braddyll, a young amateur who supplied designs for satirical prints to James Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Text following title: Vide Swift's Gulliver: Voyage to Brobdingnag.
Title etched below image.
Extent
1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 37.0 x 28.2 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Auchincloss Gillray v. 5

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
still image
Genre
Aquatints--England--London--1803.
Etchings--England--London--1803.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1803.
Subject (Name)
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Braddyll, Thomas , 1776-1862, artist.
George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Swift, Jonathan,--1667-1745.--Gulliver's travels--Adaptations, parodies, etc.
Subject (Topic)
Military uniforms--British.
Military uniforms--French.
Telescopes.

Access And Usage Rights

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Public
Rights
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Citation
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10019
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 286
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 298

Identifiers

Orbis Record
12318685
Object ID (OID)
11858812

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