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- Title:
- Stealing Off; - or - Prudent Seces(s)ion. "Courageous Chief The First in Flight"
- Date:
- 1798
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and aquatint, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 1/2 x 13 7/8in. (49.5 x 35.2cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image: upper center: "'Read o'er This! and after This! And then to Breakfast, with what appetate you may!!!' | O'Conner's List of Secret Traitors"; center: "Destruction of Buonoparte | Capture of the French Navy | End of the Irish Rebellion | Voluntary Associations | Europe Arming | Britannia Ruling the Waves"; lower center: "Js. Gillray invt. & fect."; lower right: "Opposition Greyhound | Pubd. Novr. 6th 1798. by H. Humphrey. 27 St. James's Street"; lettered below image, lower right: "Stealling Off; or Prudent Secesion; 'Courageous Chief! The First in Flight'"; lower right: "N.B. The background contains, a corner of the House next Session; with the Reasons | for the Session; also, a democratic Déjeuné; i.e., Opposition Eating up their Words."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.924
- 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:43745
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