- Title:
- The Fall of the Wolsey of the Woolsack
- Date:
- 1792
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching with hand coloring in watercolor
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 × 13 1/2 inches (22.9 × 34.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper left: "Pub'd May 24th 1792 by H. Humphrey No. 18 Old Bond Street"; upper left to upper center: "What! What! What! Pull against me Neddy? | Pull against me? No! No! No! 'twont do, Neddy! 'twont do! | Leave go! Leave go, Neddy! dont put me in a passion Neddy! but leave go Neddy"; center: "Take it, ingrate! and then farewell, o damnation | i've touched the highest point of all my greatness, damnation | And from that full meridian of my glory, damnation | I haste now to my setting, I shall fall, damnation | Like a bright exhalation on the evening, damnation | And no man see me more _ Damnation! O damnation"; center right: "Bravo! Cousin Billy! pull away! | now again! I have a mighty fancy for | this wig! I think it would add dignity to | my Ranger & Secretaryship!"; upper right: "Yeo! Yeo! this one pull more Billy Ranger, and | we shall secure every thing unto our own family, | and then leave me alone to take a pull at | Old Nobbs & John Bull"; below image: "The Fall of the WOLSEY of the WOOLSACK"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1040
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41791
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James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, The Fall of the Wolsey of the Woolsack, 1792
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