- Title:
- The Doctor Indulged with his Favorite Scene ---
- Date:
- ca. 1790
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 7/8 x 13 5/8in. (22.5 x 34.6cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered above image, upper center: "<Lon>don Pub Dec 12 by S W Fores N.3 Piccadilly where may be seen the compleatest collection of caricatures in the Kingdom admitance 1 shill."; lettered inside image, center left: "'Oh! quel Beau Jour.'"; center: "'Alons le Duc nous payerons Noblement pour ceci'"; center right: '"Here she is'"; lower left: "'Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace for mine Eyes haev Seen.'"; lettered below image, lower center: "The Doctor Indulged with his Favorute Scene | Is this a Triumph to be consecrated at alters? to be commemorated with grateful thanksgiving! to be offered to the divine humanity with fervent prayer & enthusiastick ejaculation? | These Theban & Thracian Orgies acted in France and applauded only in the OLD JEWRY | vide reflections on the Revolution page 107"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1078
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- caricature | caricatures | satire
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42407
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, The Doctor Indulged with his Favorite Scene ---, ca. 1790
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