Political Mathematician's, Shaking the Broad Bottom'd Hemispheres

January 9, 1807
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  • Title: Political Mathematician's, Shaking the Broad Bottom'd Hemispheres
  • Artist: James Gillray (British, London 1756–1815 London)
  • Publisher: Hannah Humphrey (British, ca. 1745–1819)
  • Stock polisher: George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
  • Subject: Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (British, 1770–1844)
  • Subject: George Canning (British, 1770–1827)
  • Subject: Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (British, 1769–1822)
  • Subject: William Cobbett (British, Farnham, Surrey 1763–1835 Surrey)
  • Subject: Edward Law 1st Baron Ellenborough (British, 1750–1818)
  • Subject: Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine (British, 1750–1823)
  • Subject: Maria Anne Fitzherbert (British, 1756–1837)
  • Subject: Charles James Fox (British, 1749–1806)
  • Subject: Elizabeth Bridget Fox (British, 1750–1842)
  • Subject: William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (British, 1759–1834)
  • Subject: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (British, Northumberland 1764–1845 Northumberland)
  • Subject: Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (British, 1770–1828)
  • Subject: Henry Richard Fox Vassall, 3rd Baron Holland (British, 1773–1840)
  • Subject: John Gale Jones (British, 1769–1838)
  • Subject: Dorothy Jordon (British, 1761–1816)
  • Subject: James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale (British, 1759–1839)
  • Subject: Francis Rawdon Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira (British, 1754–1826)
  • Subject: Napoléon Bonaparte (French, Ajaccio 1769–1821 St. Helena)
  • Subject: James Paull (British, 1770–1808)
  • Subject: Right Honorable Spencer Perceval (British, 1762–1812)
  • Subject: Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (British, 1780–1863)
  • Subject: William Pitt (British, 1759–1806)
  • Subject: Richard Bateman Robson (British, 1753–1827)
  • Subject: Guy Rose
  • Subject: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Irish, Dublin 1751–1816 London)
  • Subject: George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (British, 1758–1834)
  • Subject: John Thelwall (British, 1764–1834)
  • Subject: George Tierney (British, 1761–1830)
  • Subject: John Horne Tooke (British, 1736–1812)
  • Subject: William Windham (British, 1750–1810)
  • Subject: Richard Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (British, 1776–1839)
  • Date: January 9, 1807
  • Medium: Hand-colored etching
  • Dimensions: sheet: 12 11/16 x 16 15/16 in. (32.3 x 43 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Philip van Ingen, 1942
  • Object Number: 42.121(111)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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