Author: Gillray, James. (1756-1815) printmaker
Title: The Feast of Reason & the Flow of Soul", I.E. , the Wits of the Age Setting the Table in a Roar. Original Etching
Description: London: H. Humphrey, 1797. Handcolored etching on wove paper. Trimmed at the platemark. Sheet size 24.7 x 35.2 cm. Signed and dated in the plate lower right.Publisher name lower right. References: British Museum BM 8984; Met Museum Accession Number: 1976.602.23.. The Feast of Reason. shows five notable Whigs siting at a table engaged in what can only very broadly be described as conversation. They include (from left to right) George Hanger, the longtime carousing companion of the Prince of Wales, with spilled glass and his trademark bludgeon in his boot, Charles James Fox, the Whig opposition leader (with his back to us), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright, ardent Whig, and perennial debtor, looking (as usual in Gillray's prints) furtive and unreliable, the diminutive Michael Angelo Taylor, Member of Parliament, Whig supporter, and frequent subject in Gillray's prints after 1793, and finally John Courtenay, a sarcastic speaker in Parliament, and member of both the Whig Club and Brooks's. Yale University library: ""The feast of reason & the flow of soul", i.e. The wits of the age setting the table in a roar. .
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Title: The Feast of Reason & the Flow of Soul", I.E. , the Wits of the Age Setting the Table in a Roar. Original Etching
Description: London: H. Humphrey, 1797. Handcolored etching on wove paper. Trimmed at the platemark. Sheet size 24.7 x 35.2 cm. Signed and dated in the plate lower right.Publisher name lower right. References: British Museum BM 8984; Met Museum Accession Number: 1976.602.23.. The Feast of Reason. shows five notable Whigs siting at a table engaged in what can only very broadly be described as conversation. They include (from left to right) George Hanger, the longtime carousing companion of the Prince of Wales, with spilled glass and his trademark bludgeon in his boot, Charles James Fox, the Whig opposition leader (with his back to us), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright, ardent Whig, and perennial debtor, looking (as usual in Gillray's prints) furtive and unreliable, the diminutive Michael Angelo Taylor, Member of Parliament, Whig supporter, and frequent subject in Gillray's prints after 1793, and finally John Courtenay, a sarcastic speaker in Parliament, and member of both the Whig Club and Brooks's. Yale University library: ""The feast of reason & the flow of soul", i.e. The wits of the age setting the table in a roar. .
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Price: US$ 1200.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 16-5800
- Book number: 16-5800
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