- Title:
- The Monster Broke Loose - or - A Peep into the Shakespeare - Gallery
- Date:
- 1791
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 x 9in. (30.5 x 22.9cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper center: "'There! There! There's a nice gash! there! | ah, this will be a glorious subject for to make a fuss | about in the News-papers; a hundred Guineas reward, will | make a fine sound: there! there! O, there will be fine talking | about the Gallery: and it will bring in a rare sight of Shillings for | seeing of the cut Pictures; there! & there again! egad there's nothing | like having a good head piece! here!! here!! there! there! and then | these Small pictures won't cost a great deal of money replacing; | indeed one would not like to cut a large one to pieces for the sake | of making it look as if People envied us; no! that would cost rather | too much; & my pocket begins but, mum! thats nothing to nobody | well, none can blame me for going the cheapest way to work; to | keep up with the reputation of the Gallery, there! there! there! there!'"; lettered below image, lower center: "The Monster Broke Loose - or A Peep into the Shakespeare Gallery. | Pubd. April 26th, 1791. by H. Humphrey N.18 Old Bond Street"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1005
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- caricature | caricatures | satire
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41713
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James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, The Monster Broke Loose - or - A Peep into the Shakespeare - Gallery, 1791
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