James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, Fatal Effect of the French Defeat - Hanging (and) Drowning, 1795
- Title:
- Fatal Effect of the French Defeat - Hanging (and) Drowning
- Date:
- 1795
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 3/8in. (23.5 x 34cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, upper left: "Pichegru"; center left: "Account of the Republican Overthrow"; upper right: "George III"; center: "News of the Victory over the Carmagnols": lower left: "Pubd. Novr. 9th, 1795. by H. Humphrey New Bond Street"; lower center: "Hanging. | [Fatal Effects of the French Defeat.] | Drowning."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.987
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- caricature | caricatures | satire
- Associated People:
- Dundas, Henry, first Viscount Melville (1742–1811), British politician and lawyer
Fox, Charles James (1749–1806), politician
George III (1738–1820), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover
Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41552
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