Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807, British, Cartoon for "Gulliver Taking Leave of the Land of Houyhnhms", between 1768 and 1769
- Title:
- Cartoon for "Gulliver Taking Leave of the Land of Houyhnhms"
- Date:
- between 1768 and 1769
- Materials & Techniques:
- Graphite, pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 5/16 × 10 11/16 inches (21.1 × 27.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, verso, upper right: "Cartoon of Gulliver leaving | the hounemyns. S. Gilpin RA"
Watermark "IV" whcih may be, as Churchill suggests, the watermark of a medical work publication at AMsterdam, that of Adriaan Rogge, 1760 (see Churchill, W.A.Watermarks on Paper. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger & Co. 1935. 84).
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1998.32.6(2)
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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