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James Gillray
The royal lounger 1804
hand-coloured etching
22.1 × 16.6 cm (image) 26.1 × 18.9 cm (image and text) 25.6 × 20.5 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
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The royal lounger
1804
Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
22.1 × 16.6 cm (image) 26.1 × 18.9 cm (image and text) 25.6 × 20.5 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 10296; Wright & Evans 479
Printing/Publishing
published by Hannah Humphrey, London
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: Published June 26th (th in superscript) 1804 by H.Humphrey (…illeg.)
printed in ink l.c.: THE ROYAL LOUNGER.
printed in ink (in image) u.c.: Post tot Naufragia tutus.
Accession Number
1573.16-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire Portraits
Subjects (specific)
caricatures men (male humans) military uniforms pig (genus) royalty (nobility)
Movements
Georgian