Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
James Gillray, 1756–1815, British

after James Gillray, 1756–1815, British

Published by Hannah Humphrey, ca. 1745–1818, British
Title:
Presages of the Millenium
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 × 14 13/16 inches (33 × 37.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left inside image: "J.s G.y Desn et fecit _ Pubd June 4th 1795 by H Humphrey No27 NewBond Street"; lower center below image: "Presages of the MILLENIUM; with The Destruction of the Faithful, as Revealed to R:Brothers, the Prophet, & attested by M.B.Hallhead Esq | 'Amd e'er the Last Days begain, I looked & behold, a White Horse, & his Name who sat yhon was Death; & Hell followed after him; & Power was given unto him to kill with the | 'Sword, & with Famine, & with Death; and I saw under him the Souls of the Multitude, those who were destroy'd for maintaing the word of Truth, and & for the Testimony__"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.916
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
caricatures | caricature | nude | serpents | swords | sword | uniforms | scrolls | testimony | historical subject | satire | parody | humor | peace | fear | truth | legislation | hell | faith | grotesques | seamen | men | riding | science | meteorology | galloping | destruction | hoards | crown | fish | Bible | souls | horse (animal) | pigs | wings | herds | clouds | monsters | killing | power | famine | fire | death | storm
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
William Blake: Visionary (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023-10-17 - 2024-01-14)

Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (Harvard Art Museums, 2022-09-15 - 2023-01-16)

The World Turned Upside Down - Apocalyptic Imagery in England (Haggerty Museum of Art, 2017-10-05 - 2018-01-18)

The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09)

The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)

The Body Politic: The Evolution of Political Satire in Print (Yale University Art Gallery, 2000-09-01 - 2000-11-26)

James Gillray - Prints by the Eighteenth Master of Caricature (The Hood Museum of Art, 1994-01-08 - 1994-03-13)

William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06)

William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14)
Publications:
Ron Broglio, Beasts of Burden : Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism, Albany, 2017, p. 16, fig. 2.1, PR468 A56 B74 2017 (YCBA)

Edouard Kopp, Dare to know : prints and drawings in the age of Enlightenment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2022, pp. 234, 235, 238, 311, Fig. 4, NC87 .D37 2022 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

William Blake : Visionary, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, p. 112, pl. 70, NJ18.B57 A12 2020 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:43734