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    • Author/Creator:Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
    • Title:Fast-asleep [graphic].
    • Publication:London : Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, [1 November 1806]
    • Physical Description:1 print : etching & stipple engraving with roulette ; sheet 24 x 20.2 cm
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
      • Status:No information available 
      • Notes:1 print : etching & stipple engraving with roulette on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.2 x 21.3 cm, on sheet 27.9 x 22.8 cm.
        Watermark: 1811.
        Mounted on leaf 47 of volume 11 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 from British Museum catalogue.
      Campanion print to: "Wide-awake."
      Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
    • Summary:"An elderly 'cit' sleeps in a low, upright chair, leaning back till his profile faces the ceiling. His hands are clasped over his chest, his wig dangles from his coat-collar, and he puffs from tightly shut lips. The room is bare with a boarded floor. On a round table are a jug and glass, and the sleeper's pipe lying on 'Cobbett's Political Register'."--British Museum online catalogue.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10644
      Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, p. 343
      Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 561
    • Subjects:Wigs.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
      Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
      Riviere & Son--Binding.
    • Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1806.
      Etchings--England--London--1806.
      Stipple engravings--England--London--1806.
      Watermarks (Paper)--1811.
    • Also listed under:Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.