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• Author/Creator:Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
  
• Title:We explain de rights of man to de noblesse [graphic] : scene, the House of Lords / Sir John Dalrymple, inv. ; Js. Gillray fecit.
  
• Publication:London : Pubd. March 1st, 1798, by Js. Gillray, No. 27 St. James's Street, [1 March 1798]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching with engraving ; plate mark 34.8 x 41 cm, on sheet 37 x 43 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:1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.0 x 40.5 cm, on sheet 38.0 x 42.6 cm.
    Price has been completely erased from sheet.
    On the verso is another impression in red ink of the same print.
    Mounted on leaf 36 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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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Auchincloss Gillray v. 4
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:1 print : etching with engraving in red ink on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 38.0 x 42.6 cm.
    Printed on the verso of another impression of the same print.
    Mounted on leaf 36 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.
    

  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 798.03.01.04++ Impression 1
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
    
  • Provenance:Peter Murray Hill; Oct. 1958; Acquisitions no.: 958-10-1-14.
    
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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 798.03.01.04++ Impression 2
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:1 print on wove paper : etching with engraving in red ink ; sheet 35.1 x 40.5 cm.
    Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark.
    Numbered in ms. in right margin: 248.
    Partial watermark.
    
  • Provenance:Caricatures II; Sept. 1968; Acquisitions no.: 968-9-1-248.
    
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• Medium:wove paper
  
• Local Notes:Temporary local subject terms: Threat of French invasion -- Interior of House of Lords -- Allusion to Spanish Armada -- Cap of Liberty -- Strangling Turkish bowstrings -- Bayoneted guns with screws -- Military: French soldiers -- French navy officers -- French naval uniforms -- French military uniforms -- Mute Turks -- Theft of maces -- Ships: Galleons -- Ladders -- Thrones -- Tapestries -- Pikes -- Busts -- Guillotines -- Propaganda -- Swords -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Torches.
  
• Notes:Title etched below image.
  "Price 6 d. Colourd. 1 sh. 3 d."
  Three columns of text below image: Description. A guillotine, which is placed on the throne ...
  Exhibited: "James Gillray's Hogarthian Progresses" at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, April 2016 - September 2016.
  
• Summary:"Under the title: 'Description. - A Guillotine, which is placed on the Throne; the royal Chairs being removed, pour accomoder les Etrangers, (in English) To accommodate the Strangers. Two Turkish Mutes, with strangling Bowstrings, each his hand on his Mouth, stand as Supporters. The House empty of Peers. On a Board is written, "Solitudinem faciunt, Pacem appellant". (in English)" They (that is, the French) "create Solitude, and call it Peace". - The Cap of Liberty [Liberté] above the Canopy, below which is painted in capital Letters, "Confusion to all Order". - A French Admiral [right], looking at the Tapestry, which represents the Defeat of ye Spanish invincible Armada, & the Portraits of the Immortal English Commanders, says "Me like not de Omen; destroy it." French Soldiers with Swords, Pikes, & screwed Bayonets, attack the Tapestry, on one Side of the Room [right]. A Sea Captain, on the Top of a Ladder [left], tears down ye Tapestry from above ; his Lieutenant sets fire to it below, & at the same Time pulls the Foot of the Ladder, to break his Superior's Neck; saying, "This is an easier Way of getting Preferment than de English Way." - "Un Commandant en Chef (in English) The Commander in Chief, in his full Republican Uniform, pointing at the Mace says, "Here take away this Bauble; but if there be any Gold on it, send it to my Lodging." - A [ragged] French Soldier carries it away on his Shoulder. The Bust of Felton [assassin of Buckingham, 1628] on the Table, in the Middle between those of Damien & Ravillac.' [Dalrymple, op. cit., pp. 3-4.] See BMSat 9180."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Series:Consequences of a successful French invasion ; no. I, plate 2d
  
• References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9181
  Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, p. 236
  Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 179
  
• Subjects:Felton, John, 1595?-1628.
  Damiens, Robert François, 1715-1757.
  Ravaillac, François, 1578-1610.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
  Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
  Riviere & Son--Binding.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1798.
  Etchings--England--London--1798.
  Watermarks (Paper)
  Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.
  
• Also listed under:Dalrymple, John, Sir, 1726-1810, artist.
  Gillray, James, 1756-1815, publisher.