The Death of Property Tax!!!, 1816

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Medium

etching and engraving with publisher's hand coloring on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 22.5 × 33.8 cm (8 7/8 × 13 5/16 in.)

sheet: 26 × 36.1 cm (10 1/4 × 14 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Cohn 1924, no. 1047

Accession Number

2013.170.1

Artists / Makers

George Cruikshank (artist) British, 1792 - 1878

J. Sidebotham (publisher) British, active 1802 - 1820s

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate; G Cruikshank fec; lower center in plate: The DEATH of the PROPERTY TAX!!! / or 37 Mortal Wounds for Ministers & the Inquisitorial Commissioners !!!!!!!!!; lower right in plate: London Pubd by J Sidebotham / 96 Strand

Provenance

King of France Louis Philippe d'Orleans, Paris. (Andrew Edmunds, London); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Edmunds, Andrew
d'Orleans, Louis Philippe King of France

Bibliography

1924: Cohn, Albert M. George Cruikshank; a catalogue raisonné of the work executed during the years 1806-1877. London, 1924: no. 1047.