Details

Subject(s)

• Political cartoons—Great Britain—18th century [Browse]
• Caricature [Browse]
• Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 1751-1816—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Kemble, Charles 1775-1854—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Actors—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Authors, Irish—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Dramatist, Irish—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]

Attributed to

• Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Browse]

Caricaturist

• Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Etchings
• Depiction: Caricature portrait. Sheridan (as Pizzarro) above Kemble's head, which is much lower righter in scale compared to Sheridan.
• Signed in plate, lower right: "Etch'd by J. Chapman".
• Signed in plate, lower left: "R. S. Esqr. 99".

Source acquisition

Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.

References

• British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, [1978]. No. 9417
• Grego, p. 274 (small copy, attributes to Gillray)
• Published for the Anti-Jacobin Review.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

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