Lot 252
Beer Brewing Trade.- Gillray (James) The Triumph of Quassia, 1806.
Hammer Price: £850
Description
Beer Brewing Trade.- Gillray (James) The Triumph of Quassia, Quassia was a South American plant that was promoted as a superior and tax-free substance for brewing beer instead of hops, and the present satire shows major brewers in a celebratory procession, etching with hand-colouring, on cream wove paper without watermark, platemark 245 x 345 mm (9 5/8 x 19 1/2 in), sheet 285 x 425 mm (11 1/4 x 16 3/4 in), good margins, one or two small nicks to extremities of the lower edge, minor handling creases and surface dirt, unframed, [BM Satires 10574], Hannah Humphrey, 1806.
Description
Beer Brewing Trade.- Gillray (James) The Triumph of Quassia, Quassia was a South American plant that was promoted as a superior and tax-free substance for brewing beer instead of hops, and the present satire shows major brewers in a celebratory procession, etching with hand-colouring, on cream wove paper without watermark, platemark 245 x 345 mm (9 5/8 x 19 1/2 in), sheet 285 x 425 mm (11 1/4 x 16 3/4 in), good margins, one or two small nicks to extremities of the lower edge, minor handling creases and surface dirt, unframed, [BM Satires 10574], Hannah Humphrey, 1806.
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