- Title:
- Substitutes for Bread; - or - Right Honorables, Saving the Loaves and Dividing the Fishes
- Date:
- 1795
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 7/8 x 13 1/4in. (22.5 x 33.7cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "[...]"
Lettered inside image, upper left: "Petition from the Starving Swine | 14 Pence pr. Quartern | Grant us the Crumbs which drops from your Table"; upper center: "Proclomation for a General Fast, in ordert to avert the impending Famine. | Subsitutes for Bread | Venison, Roast Beef, Poultry, Turtle Soup, Fish, boil'd in wine, Ragouts, Jellies &c. Burgundy, Champaign, Tokay, &c. &c."; lettered below image, lower left: "Js. Gy. d. et ft."; lower center: "SUBSITUTUES for BREAD; or Right Honorables, Saving the Loaves; & Dividing the Fishes. | To the Charitable Committee, for reducing the high price of Corn, by providing Subsitutes for Bread in their own Families, this representation of the | Hard shifts made by the Framers & Signers of the Philanthropic Agreement, is most respectfully dedicated."; lower right: "Pubd. Decr. 24th 1795 by H. Humphrey New Bond Street"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.931
- 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:43758
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Ron Broglio, Beasts of Burden : Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism, Albany, 2017, p. 17, fig. 2.2, PR468 A56 B74 2017 (YCBA) [YCBA]