Print Description
Medium: Etching and engraving in red on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 22.6 x 29.3 cm (8.9 x 11.54 inch). Image size: 21.8 x 27.6 cm. (8.58 x 10.87 inch).
Condition: good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
BATAVIAN REPUBLIC, DUTCH HISTORY, SATIRE, POLITICAL CARICATURE, FRENCH REVOLUTION, JAMES GILLRAY, VENICE, VENETIAN PRINTS, CESAREAN BIRTH, ALLEGORY, HISTORICAL PRINTS | PCO-E21-38
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Published as part of the 1796 satirical series “Hollandia Regenerata” by James Gillray, published in London by William Humphrey.
Reference: British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. 7, London 1942, no. 8864
Ernst Eschmann, David Hess (1770-1843): sein Leben und seine Werke, Aarau 1910, pp. 68-72
Frederik Muller, De Nederlandsche geschiedenis in platen, Vol. III (1795-1879), p. 18-19, No. 5431b/19.
Biography engraver: James Gillray (1756-1815) was a British caricaturist famous for satirical etchings targeting political figures of the time. .
Biography artist: David Hess (1770-1843) was a late 18th, early 19th-century Swiss caricaturist, painter, writer and politician. In 1796, he wrote and illustrated ‘Hollandia Regenerata’ (1796), a satirical pamphlet intended to criticize the newly found Batavian Republic in the Netherlands. The book is a thematically connected series of cartoony illustrations, with text captions underneath the images. It was widely reprinted and bootlegged, including in 1798 by James Gillray. Historically speaking, Hess is the oldest example of a prototypical Swiss comic artist.
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