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A French Telegraph Making Signals in the Dark
James Gillray1795
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: A French Telegraph Making Signals in the Dark
- Creator: James Gillray
- Date Created: 1795
- Subject Keywords: caricatures, Napoleonic era, political caricature, politics, technology, telegraph
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower right: “J.s G.Y des et fec.”
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Purchase funds, 1962
- Materials & Techniques: Etching and aquatint with hand coloring on wove paper
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: Published 26 January 1795 by H. Humphrey, No. 37 Bond Street, London
- Dimensions: 1815
- Bibliography: Wright pp. 181–182; BM Sat 8612
- Associated People: Created by James Gillray (British (English), 1757-1815)
- Accession Number: 1962.51.5
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