- Title:
- Hyde-Park; - Sunday, - or - Both Hemispheres of the World in a Sweat ---
- Date:
- 1789
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 x 12 7/8in. (20.3 x 32.7cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered below image, lower center: "Hyde-Park; Sunday, or Both Hemispheres of the World in a Sweat; | The World and all the great, 'which it inherit' was there - Equestrian motion, universal - we saw all - mark'd all! The Duelist with one Curl, & the Fraternal, one | degree higher, down to the intelligencers of the Low Prints (who cast their eyes around, that witness'd huge affliction & dismay); all was splendid who (& what dignity but contained | in that monosyllable?) not present? Becky was there!! Attraction spontaneous! Old Quiz, cast a single glance! 'O the days when I was young! One Pang arose! We | view'd the field - captivating - beautiful! Most beautiful! But Bunbury - where was Harry Bunbury? We return'd as (craving appetites of Cheapside satisfied) cent. pr. cent. Citz: Mans-mercers | & Womens-mercers, were issuing, to inhale the clouded Air, Heat, Dust Ibid Ibidem."; lower right: "Price 1/6 sh - Pubd. June 1st, 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street Leicester Field"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1093
- 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:42542
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Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, Hyde-Park; - Sunday, - or - Both Hemispheres of the World in a Sweat ---, 1789
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