- Title:
- Independence
- Date:
- 1799
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 1/2 x 8 1/2in. (31.8 x 21.6cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper center: "'Im an Independent Man, Sir, & I don't care That! who hears me say so! | I don't like Wooden Shoes! no Sir, neither French Wooden Shoes, no nor | English Wooden Shoes, neither! and as to the tall Gentleman over the way, | I can tell him, that I'm no Pizarro! I'll not hold up the Devils Tail to fish for | a Place, or a Pension! I'm no sulker! no, nor no Seceder neither! I'll not | keep out of the way, for fear of being told my own! Here's my Place, & Here I ought | to speak! I warrant I'll not sneak into Taverns to drink humbug Toasts that | I am afraid to explain, not I! | my motto is "Independence & | Old England" and That! | for all the rest of the World! | there; That! That! That! | That! That!'"; lettered below image, lower left: "Js. Gillray ad vivam fect."; lower center: "INDEPENDENCE."; lower right: "Pubd. June 9th, 1799. by H. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1010
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41718
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James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, Independence, 1799
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