About the Artwork
Charon's Boat or the Ghosts of "all the Talents" Taking Their Last Voyage
1807
James Gillray (Artist) English, 1756-1815 H. Humphrey (Publisher)
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plate: 9 5/8 x 13 3/4 in. 24.4 x 34.9 cm sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 5/8 in. 26.2 x 37.1 cm
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
F1984.32
Public Domain
Markings
In plate, lower left: Js. Gillray fect.; very faintly, lower right: Pub. July ( ) 1807 by H. Humphrey. 27 St. James ( ); center bottom margin: CHARON'S-BOAT.-or-THE Ghost's of "all the Talents" taking their last voyage.- from the Pope's Gallery at Rome.; top left edge: Publish'd July 16th 1807, by H. Humphrey 27 St. James Street.; in pencil on supporting sheet: Earl St. Vincent' avast\ ( ).
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Wright, Thomas and R. H. Evans, HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE CARICATURES OF JAMES GILLRAY, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851, pp 305-307, no 339.
George, Mary Dorothy, CATALOGUE OF POLITICAL AND PERSONAL SATIRES PRESERVED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, London: The British Museum, 1947, vol VIII (1801-1810), pp 545-547, no 10748.
Wright, Thomas, ed., THE WORKS OF JAMES GILLRAY, THE CARICATURIST, NY: Abner Schram, 1970, PP 350-351, for detailed iconography of the print.
Paul McCarron Gallery, NY, CARICATURES BY JAMES GILLRAY, 1757-1815, Jul 1 - Aug 31, 1984, no cat.
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James Gillray, Charon's Boat or the Ghosts of "all the Talents" Taking Their Last Voyage, 1807. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, F1984.32.
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