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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
H Beard Print Collection is a 4 by James Gillray, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Here’s a plain-English rewrite with a clear door: You see a full-length print of a man in old clothes counting piles of gold coins. He’s dressed like a Spanish conqueror. The print has bold lines and flat colors. This is a political joke from 1799. It pokes fun at a British politician by turning him into Francisco Pizarro, the greedy Spanish invader. The artist used sharp lines to make the joke even clearer. If this style grabs you, look up Gillray, James.
A full-length colored portrait depicts a man counting gold coins, titled *Pizzarro contemplating over the product of his new Peruvian mine*. The print is likely a caricature of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, portraying him as the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro. It is presented as a framed print within a card mount.
Read the full account in the museum source.
James Gillray (13 August 1756 – 1 June 1815) was an English caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810.
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