Theatrical Mendicants Relieved - have Pity upon all our Aches and Wants!
Artwork Details
- Title: Theatrical Mendicants Relieved - have Pity upon all our Aches and Wants!
- Series/Portfolio: The caricatures of Gillray: with historical and political illustrations, and compendious biographical anecdotes and notices
- Artist: After James Gillray (British, London 1756–1815 London)
- Publisher: John Miller (British, active 1804–66)
- Publisher: William Blackwood (Edinburgh)
- Subject: John James Hamilton, 1st Marquis of Abercorn (British, 1756–1818)
- Subject: Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (British, 1769–1822)
- Subject: Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine (British, 1750–1823)
- Subject: George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland (British, London 1762–1830 Windsor)
- Subject: Charles Kemble (British, 1775–1854)
- Subject: Charles John Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington
- Subject: Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland (British, 1742–1817)
- Subject: Sarah Siddons (British, Brecon, Wales 1755–1831 London)
- Date: 1824–27
- Medium: Hand-colored etching
- Dimensions: sheet (clipped impression): 7 1/4 x 9 13/16 in. (18.4 x 24.9 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
- Object Number: 17.3.888-85
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Multiple artists/makers
June 13, 1781
Multiple artists/makers
[1830]
James Gillray
June 19, 1780
Multiple artists/makers
after April 1785
James Gillray
Hannah Humphrey
July 16, 1805
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