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HET COMMITTE' VAN FINANCIE.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray (?)

After: David Hess
Title
HET COMMITTE' VAN FINANCIE.
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.


'. . . les beaux ducats! ils ont passé chez nos frêres, les Français! dit le Secretaire....' The Jew sells a figure which he assures the purchaser will, if nourished with the tears of the Orangists, give fifty ducats daily. This is better than the piles of assignats which threaten ruin. Text, 'Ecclesiasticus, Jesus Sirach', xl. 13. 1796


Etching printed in red
Date 1796
date QS:P571,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 255 millimetres
Width: 210 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.1314
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).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-1314
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