The Union Club, 1801

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Medium

etching and engraving, hand-colored with watercolor by the publisher

Dimensions

plate: 29.6 x 43.9 cm (11 5/8 x 17 5/16 in.)

sheet: 43.2 x 58.5 cm (17 x 23 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Wright and Evans 1851, no. 257

Accession Number

2012.45.1

Artists / Makers

James Gillray (artist) British, 1757 - 1815

Hannah Humphrey (publisher) British, c.1745 - 1818

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Js. Gillray / inv. & fect.; "We'll join hand in hand, all Party shall cease / And Glass after Glass, shall our Union increase"; lower center in plate: THE UNION-CLUB. / London, Publish'd Jany 21st 1801 by H. Humphrey, St. James's STreet; lower right in plate: "In the cause of Old England we'll drink down the Sun, then toast Little Ireland, & drink downt he Moon!-" by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: P& E Cowdray Park / 0911.2 BHMM

Provenance

Cowdray Park (according to inscription); (Andrew Edmunds, London); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Edmunds, Andrew

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. 257