A New Way to Pay the National-Debt, 1786

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Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 42.8 × 52.2 cm (16 7/8 × 20 9/16 in.)

sheet: 46.6 × 55.5 cm (18 3/8 × 21 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Wright and Evans 1851: no. 18

Accession Number

2013.170.2

Artists / Makers

James Gillray (artist) British, 1757 - 1815

William Holland (publisher) British, 1757 - 1815

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Design'd by Helagabalis; lower center in plate: A New Way to Pay the NATIONAL-DEBT Dedicated to Mons. Necker; lower right in plate: Executed by Sejanus ./ Pubd April 21 1786. by Willm Holland, No 66 Drury Lane

Provenance

(Andrew Edmunds, London); purchased 2013 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. 18