Monstrous Craws, at a New Coalition Feast, 1787

Not on View

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

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

Wright and Evans 1851, no. 24

2020.113.1

James Gillray (artist) British, 1757 - 1815

S. W. Fores (publisher) British

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

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

Edmunds, Andrew

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

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.