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A great Stream from a Petty-Fountain, or John Bull swamped in the flood of new Taxes, Cormorants Fishing in the stream
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James Gillray (1756-1815)
A great Stream from a Petty-Fountain, or John Bull swamped in the flood of new Taxes, Cormorants Fishing in the stream
etching with hand colouring, 1808, on wove paper; together with 10 etchings with hand colouring by the same hand, comprising Uncorking Old Sherry; Harpyes defiling the Feast; German Luxury, or Repos a l'Allemande; A Witch, upon a Mounts Edge, Vide Fuzelli; Governor Wall's Ghost!; The Bear and his Leader; Malagrida, driving Post; Venus a la Coquelle, or the Swan-sea Venus; Clearing a five Bar Gate and Hounds throwing off, on various papers, each published by H Humphrey, London, in generally good condition
Sheet 295 x 420 mm. (and similar)
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A great Stream from a Petty-Fountain, or John Bull swamped in the flood of new Taxes, Cormorants Fishing in the stream
etching with hand colouring, 1808, on wove paper; together with 10 etchings with hand colouring by the same hand, comprising Uncorking Old Sherry; Harpyes defiling the Feast; German Luxury, or Repos a l'Allemande; A Witch, upon a Mounts Edge, Vide Fuzelli; Governor Wall's Ghost!; The Bear and his Leader; Malagrida, driving Post; Venus a la Coquelle, or the Swan-sea Venus; Clearing a five Bar Gate and Hounds throwing off, on various papers, each published by H Humphrey, London, in generally good condition
Sheet 295 x 420 mm. (and similar)
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