File:A sphere, projecting against a plane (BM 1868,0808.6148).jpg
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[edit]A sphere, projecting against a plane
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Print made by: James Gillray
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| Title |
A sphere, projecting against a plane |
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| Description |
English: Pitt, very thin, stands rigidly erect in profile to the right. Mrs. Hobart, immensely fat, completely fills a globe which stands on a rectangular platform on castors, and whose circumference rests against Pitt's post-like person. She looks up at him expectantly; he stares over her head with a pained expression. Beneath the title is etched: 'Definitions from Euclid. Def: Ist B: 4th. A Sphere, is a Figure bounded by a Convex surface; it is the most perfect of all forms; its Properties are generated from its Centre; and it possesses a larger Area than any other Figure. - Def: 2d B: Ist A Plane, is a perfectly even & regular Surface, it is the most Simple of all Figures ; it has neither the Properties of Length or of Breadth ; and when applied ever so closely to a Sphere, can only touch its Superficies, without being able to enter it - Vide. Euclid, illustrated; by the Honble Mrs Circumference.' 3 January 1792
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1792 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1868,0808.6148 |
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Grego, 'Gillray', p. 133. Wright and Evans, No. 72. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6148 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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