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Dissentions in the cabinet or Affairs in a perilous situation
1801
- Medium
- hand-coloured etching
- Measurements
- 26.9 × 21.5 cm (image) 26.9 × 21.3 cm (plate) 32.0 × 25.4 cm irreg. (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- London, England
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- BM Satires 9821
- Printing/Publishing
- published by S. W. Fores, London
- Inscription
- printed in ink below image l.l.: pubd (d in superscript) May 4th (4 reversed) (th in superscript) by SW Fores 1801 / 50 Piccadilly / (fleur-de-lis above squared circle) Esqr (r in superscript above . ) delt (t in superscript above , )
printed in ink below image l.c.: DISSENTIONS in the CABINET / or Affairs in a Perilous Situation
printed in ink below image l.r.: Folios of Caracatures (sic) / lent out for the Evening - Accession Number
- 1289-4
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1944
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Unsubtle prints satirising politicians have a rich and long tradition in England, which continues today through cartoons. In 1801, when this print was made, hot topics before parliament included the recent union with Ireland that created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as the ongoing conflict with France. These would have been among many issues that would have caused noisy cat-like squabbling in parliament and the ruling cabinet, likened by this artist to the scene of a catfight that has erupted in the toilet, scratching the backside of a hag-like figure.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Humour and Satire Law, Civics and Protest
- Subjects (specific)
- conflict (general sense) domestic cat (species) fighting lavatories (rooms) political cartoons politics women (female humans)
- Movements
- Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
