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Author/Creator:Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
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Title:Swearing to the cutting monster, or, A scene in Bow Street [graphic].
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Publication:[London] : Pubd. May 20th, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, [20 May 1790]
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Physical Description:1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.9 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 28.0 x 38.8 cm
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Yale Holdings
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Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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Call Number: Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
- Status:No information available
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Notes:Watermark: S. Lay.
Mounted on leaf 66 of volume 7 of 12.
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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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View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
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Location:MEDICAL/HISTORICAL, Histories, Locked (Non-Circulating)
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Call Number: Print00297
- Status:No information available
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Notes:1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 247 x 351 mm.
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Digital version
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Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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Medium:laid paper
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Local Notes:Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Bond -- Crime.
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Notes:Title etched at bottom of image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
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Summary:"A young woman stands upon a high stool, her skirts raised to show her posteriors to three men (half length) behind her. She bends forward, pointing to Charles Fox who stands with his hands handcuffed in a booth or box behind a bar. Fox has an enormous head and an expression of terrified dismay at the denunciation. Behind him is a man in profile holding a constable's staff. The three men are evidently Bow Street Justices (Sir Sampson Wright, Addington, and Bond); the principal magistrate (Wright) wears a hat and spectacles and is much caricatured (cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 6119-21). Above their heads are the evenly balanced scales of Justice. In front of the woman stands a clerk (half length) meditatively biting his pen."--British Museum online catalogue.
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Variant and related titles:Scene in Bow Street
- Format:Visual Material
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References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 7648
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, page 118
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Subjects:Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Addington, William, Sir, -1811--Caricatures and cartoons.
Wright, Sampson, Sir, -1793--Caricatures and cartoons.
Williams, Renwick.
Stools.
Judges.
Handcuffs.
Scales.
Clerks.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Riviere & Son--Binding.
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Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1790.
Etchings--England--London--1790.
Watermarks (Paper)--S. Lay.
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Also listed under:Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12485653