Download/Print Selected Image
Copy Caption to clipboard
James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, Blowing up the Pic Nic's: or Harlequin Quioxtte Attacking the Puppets, 1802
- Title:
Blowing up the Pic Nic's: or Harlequin Quioxtte Attacking the Puppets
- Date:
- 1802
- Medium:
- Etching with aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/16 × 10 1/16 inches (35.7 × 25.5 cm), Image: 13 3/16 × 9 3/4 inches (33.5 × 24.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower right inside image: "Js Gillroy | invt & fecit | Published April 2nd 1892 by H Humphrey St James's Street"; lower center below image: " 'Blowing up the PIC NIC's: __or__ Harlequin Quixotte attacking the Puppets'. Vide Tottenham Street Pantomine"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.840
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- attacking | audience | audience | beer | bottles | broken | caricature | chaos | costume | crowd | drapery | entertainment | feathers | fire | flags | food | food | fruit | gesturing | hats | hitting | humor | literary theme | masks | medals | men | nude | pantomime | parody | Pic Nic Society | plates | plays | puppets | religious and mythological subject | satire | sculptures | shouting | stabbing | stage | swords | table | tent | theater | whip | women | wood
- Associated Places:
- England | Europe | Greater London | Tottenham | United Kingdom
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Billington, Elizabeth (1765–1818), singer
Rowe, Nicholas (1673–1718), poet, playwright, editor of Shakespeare
Schiller, Friedrich (1759–1805), playwright and poet
Jonson, Benjamin (1572–1637), poet and playwright
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816), playwright and politician
Addison, Joseph (1672–1719), writer and politician
Greville, Henry Francis (early 19th c), founder of the Pic Nic Society
Harlequin
Hobart, Albinia, Countess of Buckinghamshire (1738–1816), British noble, Daughter of Lord Vere Bertie
Cholmondeley, George James, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley (1749–1827), politician
Kemble, John Philip (1757–1823),
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright
Congreve, William (1670–1729), playwright and poet
Cecil, Mary Amelia [Emily Mary], marchioness of Salisbury (1750–1835), political hostess and sportswoman
Siddons (née Kemble), Sarah (1755–1831), actress
Edgcumbe, Richard, second earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1764–1839), writer on opera
Kotzebue, August von (1761–1819), author and poet
Otway, Thomas (1652–1685), Dramatist
Lewis, William Thomas (1746?-1812), actor and theater manager - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:43503
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Romantics & Revolutionaries : Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-03-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
If you have information about this object that may be of assistance please contact us.