Gillray (James) A great Stream from a Petty-Fountain;
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Gillray (James, 1756-1815) A great Stream from a Petty-Fountain;-or-John Bull swamped in the flood of new-taxes:-cormorants fishing in the stream, satire on the budget, whose chief feature was an increased income-tax, with numerous political figures depicted with as birds with human heads, huge beaks, and pelican-like pouches, etching with original hand-colouring, a good impression on wove paper, 240 x 350 mm (9 1/2 x 13 3/4 in), trimmed to or just within the platemark, rough edges with small nicks, handling creases, old pencil annotations, minor spotting and browning, unframed, [BM Satires 10564], Hannah Humphrey, 1806
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Gillray (James) A great Stream from a Petty-Fountain;
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