Monstrous Craws, at a New Coalition Feast

1787

James Gillray

Artist, British, 1757 - 1815

S. W. Fores

Publisher, British

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, engraving, and aquatint, with publisher's hand coloring in watercolor, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Anonymous Gift

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 37.8 × 47.8 cm (14 7/8 × 18 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.113.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wright and Evans 1851, no. 24

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Andrew Edmunds, London); Private collection, Austin, TX; gift to NGA, 2020.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1851

  • Wright, Thomas and Robert H. Evans. Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray; Comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George the Third. London, 1851. Reprint. NY: B. Blom, 1968: no. 24

1870

  • Stephens, Frederic George, and Mary Dorothy George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. London, 1870: no. 7166

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 211, fig. 2.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: MONSTROUS CRAWS at a New Coalition Feast; lower right in plate: Pubd May 29th 1787, by S. W. Fores, Piccadilly

Watermarks

Strasburg lily

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