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James Gillray
1756-1815
An excrescence : A fungus alias a toadstool upon a dung-hill.
etching, hand colored
image: 263 x 210 mm; plate: 277 x 227 mm; sheet: 277 x 242 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2758
Published:
[London] : Pubd. Decr. 20th 1791 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, [1791]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Printmaker from BM Satires.
Summary:
Print shows the head of William Pitt travestied as a fungus; his long neck represents the stalk, which grows out of a crown resting on a dunghill on which sprout three satellite toadstools.
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