Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
James Gillray, 1756–1815, British
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
Currently On View:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41723