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• Author/Creator:Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
  
• Title:The tree of corruption [graphic] : with John Bull hard at work / Thos. Humphrey des. et fec., aged 13 years.
  
• Publication:[London] : Pubd. June 22d, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [22 June 1796]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching ; plate mark 35.6 x 25 cm, on sheet 37.0 x 27 cm
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Auchincloss Gillray v. 4
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Mounted on leaf 11a (i.e verso of leaf 10) of volume 4 of 12.
    
  • Provenance:From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
    
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• Medium:wove paper
  
• Notes:Title etched below image.
  Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
  
• Summary:"A very fat John Bull (right), in profile to the left, tugs hard at a rope which is round the fork of a tree, trying hard to pull it down, his left foot planted on the trunk. In the branches are the heads of Dundas (left) and Pitt (centre) in profile to the right, and of (?) Loughborough looking towards Pitt and wearing a collar inscribed 'To be Killed off'. Dundas, wearing a tartan neckcloth, is plethoric, Pitt drink-blotched and smiling. Near the heads are three money-bags: 'Sinecures', 'Treasury Pickings', 'Secret Service Money', and a scroll, 'Pensions'. Against the trunk (left) lies a headsman's axe. Beneath the title: "Yes, honest John! by your Pulling, you have Shaken it! - pull again & it will Totter, pull once more, & it will fall" - Vide Horne Tooke Speech Answer to Horne Tooke " You may pluck up a Hazel & pull up a Pea, But there ne'er was a Man, that could pull down a Tree And so Honest John if you'd pluck off the Fruit, Leave pulling alone, lay the Ax to the Root!'."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 8817
  
• Subjects:Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Pitt, William, 1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
  Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
  Riviere & Son--Binding.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1796.
  Etchings--England--London--1796.
  
• Also listed under:Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.