- Title:
- Bonus - Melior - Optimus, or the Devil's The Best of the Bunch
- Date:
- 1783
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 1/2 x 12 1/2in. (21.6 x 31.8cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "46"
Lettered inside image, upper left: "'My dear Reynard you are welcome to a spoonful | Be cautious! a little of my Broth goes a great | way - 'tis d-d high seasond - look at my cook | he & my Freind... hum! with the consent | of the... hum, did both... hum the Nation'"; upper center: "'Blow hot! Blow cold! He! He! He! | with the self same Breath my Lord - give me a | sip of your soup -- I have often cool'd your | Porridge my Lord! Hay? He! He! He!"; upper right: "'God save great George our King, | God bless our noble King; | God damn the Broth it will never Boil?'"; lower center: "Pandora's Box"; lower right: "Thos. Pether invt."; lettered below image, lower center: "Bonus Melior Optimus | or the Devil's the Best of the Bunch."; lower right: "Pubd. April 22d, 1783 by W. Humphrey | No. 227 Strand."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1053
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41819
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James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, Bonus - Melior - Optimus, or the Devil's The Best of the Bunch, 1783
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