Author: Gillray, James. (1756-1815) printmaker
Title: The Wine Duty, -or- the Triumph of Bacchus & Silenus; with John Bulls Remonstrance. Original Etching
Description: London: H. Humphrey, 1796. Handcolored etching on wove paper. 35 x 24.3cm. sheet size. Trimmed inside the platemark.. Signed in the plate with publisher name lower right.. References: British Museum 1868,0808.6520; BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (8798); Yale University no. 11105991....................... A tun of 'Wine' lies on solid trestles inscribed 'Treasury Bench'. From its huge bung-hole emerges the naked body of Pitt, as Bacchus, crowned with vine branches. He leans back tipsily, a brimming glass in each hand. Behind him stands Dundas as Silenus, fat, and partly draped in tartan; his right hand grasps Pitt's shoulder, in his left he holds up a brimming glass. He also is crowned with vine branches. Bunches of grapes hang down from a vine above their heads and are indicated as a background to the cask whose trestles are on a dais covered with a fringed carpet. Opposite the tun stands John Bull in profile to the left, looking up at Pitt, hat in hand; in his left hand is a lank purse, under his arm three empty bottles. He is a yokel, with lank hair and hydrocephalic head, wearing a smock and wrinkled gaiters. He says: "Pray Mr Bacchus have a bit of consideration for old John; - you know as how I've emptied my Purse already for you - & its waundedly hard to raise the price of a drop of Comfort, now that one's got no Money left for to pay for it!!!" Pitt says: "Twenty Pounds a T-Tun, ad-additional Duty i-i-if you d-d-don't like it at that, why t-t-t-then Dad & I will keep it all for o-o-our own Drinking, so here g-g-goes old Bu-Bu-Bull & Mouth!!! - " 20 April 1796 Hand-coloured etching. .
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Title: The Wine Duty, -or- the Triumph of Bacchus & Silenus; with John Bulls Remonstrance. Original Etching
Description: London: H. Humphrey, 1796. Handcolored etching on wove paper. 35 x 24.3cm. sheet size. Trimmed inside the platemark.. Signed in the plate with publisher name lower right.. References: British Museum 1868,0808.6520; BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (8798); Yale University no. 11105991....................... A tun of 'Wine' lies on solid trestles inscribed 'Treasury Bench'. From its huge bung-hole emerges the naked body of Pitt, as Bacchus, crowned with vine branches. He leans back tipsily, a brimming glass in each hand. Behind him stands Dundas as Silenus, fat, and partly draped in tartan; his right hand grasps Pitt's shoulder, in his left he holds up a brimming glass. He also is crowned with vine branches. Bunches of grapes hang down from a vine above their heads and are indicated as a background to the cask whose trestles are on a dais covered with a fringed carpet. Opposite the tun stands John Bull in profile to the left, looking up at Pitt, hat in hand; in his left hand is a lank purse, under his arm three empty bottles. He is a yokel, with lank hair and hydrocephalic head, wearing a smock and wrinkled gaiters. He says: "Pray Mr Bacchus have a bit of consideration for old John; - you know as how I've emptied my Purse already for you - & its waundedly hard to raise the price of a drop of Comfort, now that one's got no Money left for to pay for it!!!" Pitt says: "Twenty Pounds a T-Tun, ad-additional Duty i-i-if you d-d-don't like it at that, why t-t-t-then Dad & I will keep it all for o-o-our own Drinking, so here g-g-goes old Bu-Bu-Bull & Mouth!!! - " 20 April 1796 Hand-coloured etching. .
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Price: US$ 1200.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 16-5802
- Book number: 16-5802
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