Collection Online
The birth of a princess!!
Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
31.6 × 46.2 cm (image) 34.9 × 48.4 cm (plate) 36.7 × 49.5 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 8781
Printing/Publishing
published by S. W. Fores, London
Inscription
printed in ink (below image) l.l.: Woodward Delin
printed in ink (below image) l.c.: The BIRTH of a PRINCESS!! / Pub.d (d in superscript above . ) Jany (y in superscript) 29 1796 by SWFores No (o in superscript) 50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville Street Folios of Caricatures Lent out for the Evening. Prints and Drawings lent out on the plan of Circulating Library
printed in ink (above image) u.r.: Vol.2. Pl.4.
printed in ink (in image) u.l.-c.r.: Huzza ! Huzza ! / no popery ! – rare news for / Old England…(8 inscriptions relating to characters)…I must go an accquaint the / Corporation immediately
Accession Number
1573.28-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire
Subjects (specific)
births captions caricatures cartoons (humorous images) men (male humans) princesses women (female humans)
Movements
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)