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- Title:
The Real Cause of the Present High-Price of Provisions or A View on the Sea Coast of England, with French Agents Smuggling Away Supplies for France
- Date:
- 1795
- Medium:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 1/4 x 16 1/4in. (28.6 x 41.3cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "g"
Lettered inside image, upper right: "Vive le Republique"; center left: "Norfolk Dumpling"; center: "French Gold | Republican Purchase"; lower left: "Fine Bedfordshire Flour | Superfine Bedfordshire Flour for Paris"; lower center: "Provision for French Army | Dissenting Manufact[ion]"; lettered below image, lower right: "Js.Gy. desn. et fect."; lower center: "The Real Cause of the Present High-Price of Provisions, or, a View on the Sea Coast of England, with French Agents, smuggling away Supplies for France."; lower right: "Pubd. May 11th, 1795, by H.Humphrey, No. 37, New Bond Street."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.915
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:43733
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