TITLE: Design for the new gallery of busts and pictures -"and so far will I trust thee gentle Kate" -Henry 4th, part 1st / Peter,burgh, inv. et fecit. CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 8072 (B size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-6749 (color film copy transparency)LC-USZ62-123022 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Cartoon shows interior view of a portrait gallery with busts of Demosthenes and Cicero, both frowning, and between them a bust of Charles J. Fox; hanging on the wall above are two prints showing Catherine II of Russia, in one, titled Justice, she is about to stab a sultan, in the other, Moderation, she is facing a map of Moldavia, Bessarabia, and Wallachia, which she embraces with outspread arms; hanging above the bust of Fox is a crowned circle inscribed "Conjugal love [-] A cure for the Haemerroidical Cholic" within which is a rope noose. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Pubd. by H. Humphrey, 1792 March 17th. CREATOR: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist. NOTES: Forms part of British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 8072 Exhibit loan 4161-L. SUBJECTS: Catherine--II,--Empress of Russia,--1729-1796. Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806. Demosthenes. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Galleries & museums--1790-1800. International relations--Russia--1790-1800. International relations--Great Britain--1790-1800. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1790-1800.Etchings 1790-1800. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g06749 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g06749 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c23022 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c23022 CONTROL #: 99404735
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