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- Title:
- Light Expelling Darkness, - Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations, - or - The Sun of the Constitution, Rising Superior to the Clouds of Opposition
- Date:
- 1795
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 1/8 x 17 3/8in. (33.3 x 44.1cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper left: 'Commons | King | Lords"; upper center: "Republique | Honorable Peace or Everlasting War."; upper right: "Irruptions of the Goths and Vandals | 2d. Edition | Patrioticle Propositions. | Peace Peace on any Terms | Fraternization | Unconditional Submission | No Law, no King, No God"; lower right: "The Whig Club"; lower center: "Jacobin Prophecies for Breeding Sedition in England | A Scheme for Raising the Catholick in Ireland | A Plan for Inflaming the Dissenter in Scotland"; lettered below image, lower left: "James Gillray des. et fect."; lower center: "LIGHT expelling DARKNESS, Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations or The SUN of the CONSTITUTION, rising superior to the Clouds of OPPOSITION."; lower right: "Pubd. April 30th, 1795 by H. Humphrey, | No. 37 New Bond Street."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.911
- 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:43729
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