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James Gillray
Brittische hungerleiderey
etching
image: 113 x 75 mm; sheet: 140 x 89 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2800
Published:
[Place not specified] : [publisher not specified], [1792?]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Title from caption.
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
A reduced, translated copy of the second panel of "French liberty -- British slavery" (December 21, 1792) by James Gillray. The contents of the speech bubble differ slightly from the original.
Summary:
An immensely fat Englishman carves a roast while complaining about taxation and starvation. He says, "God dam! unsre [sic] Minister lassen uns bey unsermsaftigen Rost beef und vollen Porter-Krug, dick u. sett werden".
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