File:HET COMMITTE' VAN FINANCIE. (BM 1851,0901.1314).jpg
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[edit]HET COMMITTE' VAN FINANCIE.
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Artist |
Print made by: James Gillray (?)
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Title |
HET COMMITTE' VAN FINANCIE. |
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Description |
English: Four members of the committee surround a treasure-chest, dismayed to find it empty of ducats and occupied by a grinning demon who points derisively at one of them, the Secretary (wearing a bonnet-rouge with a pen in it) who holds upside down an empty bag inscribed 'ils ont emigrè'. One of them, his back to the chest, takes from a Jew (left) wearing a fur cap a dish on which a little demon is excreting coins. On the right a large cupboard falls forward shooting the huge packages it contains, inscribed 'Recepissen' and 'Assignats', on to the backs of two of the committee, the more prominent is the president of the Committee of Accounts in BMSat 8850.
Etching printed in red |
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Date |
1796 date QS:P571,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1851,0901.1314 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) The shops were forced (April 1795) to take assignats from French soldiers and to change them for receipts, equivalent to a forced paper currency. On 27 May 1795 it was reported that coin had completely disappeared. 'Dropmore Papers', iii. 54, 71. For comment on "Hollandia Regenerata", the series to which this print belongs, see BM Satires 8846 (1851,0901.1311). |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-1314 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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