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Lot 145
Gillray (James) Midas Transmuting All Into [Gold] Paper, etching with hand-colouring, 1797.
Hammer Price: £2,800
Description
Gillray (James) Midas Transmuting All Into [Gold] Paper, etching with original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermark, numerous marginal pencil inscriptions, platemark 355 x 250 mm (14 x 9 7/8 in), sheet 412 x 297 mm (16 1/4 x 11 3/4 in), good margins, exposure lines and some toning, residual parts of a blue-paper album leaf affixed verso, minor handling creases, unframed, published by Hannah Humphrey, 1797
Literature:
BM Satires 1797
⁂ A double-edged satire on Pitt for the stoppage of gold payments, and on the Opposition as factious and Jacobinical. Pitt is depicted as a colossal figure bestride the Rotunda of the 'Bank of England', his arms and legs are very thin, but his body is formed of a (transparent) sack distended with gold coins and inscribed '£'.
Description
Gillray (James) Midas Transmuting All Into [Gold] Paper, etching with original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermark, numerous marginal pencil inscriptions, platemark 355 x 250 mm (14 x 9 7/8 in), sheet 412 x 297 mm (16 1/4 x 11 3/4 in), good margins, exposure lines and some toning, residual parts of a blue-paper album leaf affixed verso, minor handling creases, unframed, published by Hannah Humphrey, 1797
Literature:
BM Satires 1797
⁂ A double-edged satire on Pitt for the stoppage of gold payments, and on the Opposition as factious and Jacobinical. Pitt is depicted as a colossal figure bestride the Rotunda of the 'Bank of England', his arms and legs are very thin, but his body is formed of a (transparent) sack distended with gold coins and inscribed '£'.
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