Terms and conditions of use
The plumb-pudding in danger or State epicures taking un petit souper
1805
Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
25.5 × 35.7 cm (image) 26.1 × 36.3 cm (plate) 26.6 × 37.0 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1944
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 10371; Wright & Evans 295
Printing/Publishing
published by Hannah Humphrey, London
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) u.l.: London / Pub.d (d in superscript above . ) Feby (y in superscript) 26th (th in superscript) 1805. / by H. Humphrey 27 / S.t (t in superscript above . ) James’s Street / J.s (s in superscript above . ) Gillray inv & fec
printed in ink (in image) u.c.-u.r.: The Plumb-pudding in danger;_or_State Epicures taking un Petit Souper. / “the great Globe itself, and all which it inherit”, is too small to satisfy such insatiable appetites / __vide Mc (c in superscript) W _ d_m’s, eccentricities, in ye (e in superscript above y) Political Register.
printed in ink (in image) (on globe) c.: (names of countries and oceans)
Accession Number
1264-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire Law, Civics and Protest
Subjects (specific)
apportioning dining globes (cartographic spheres) international relations Napoleon I, Emperor of the French Pitt, William political cartoons satire (artistic device)
Movements
Georgian