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James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, A Hackney Meeting, 1796
- Title:
- A Hackney Meeting
- Date:
- 1796
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 7/8 x 9 1/4in. (32.7 x 23.5cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, center left: "Treatise on the use of Cocoa"; lower left: "Mermaid Hackney | Meeting of the Freeholders, for obtaining a Repeal of the odious, detesable, obnoxious, unconstitutional, oppresive [...]"; lower right: "Address to his Majesty by the Freeholders"; lettered below image, lower left: "Js. Gy. desn. et fect."; lower center: "A HACKNEY MEETING."; lower right: "Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1796. by H. Humphrey New Bond Street"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1014
- 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:41723
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