Blowing up the Pic Nic's;--or--Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets / Js. Gillray, invt. & fect . – Antique Wall Art
![Blowing up the Pic Nic's;--or--Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets / Js. Gillray, invt. & fect ., [England] : Publish'd April 2d, 1802 by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, 1802. — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ba/ba23e2e2d1a3-L.webp)
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Blowing up the Pic Nic's;--or--Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets / Js. Gillray, invt. & fect .
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Gillray's etching shows a Harlequin-style Quixote laying into a row of puppets, a joke aimed at the Pic Nic Society, a private London club known for its amateur theatricals. Published by Humphrey in April 1802, the print belongs to a long run of stage-based satires that Gillray turned on fashionable society. The coloured aquatint carries the sharp, crowded energy of his best work, and the pairing of a knight-errant with a harlequin's antics mocks both the pretensions of the performers and the stiff, puppet-like seriousness of the audience they wanted to impress.
| Created / published | [England] : Publish'd April 2d, 1802 by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, 1802. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving, coloured. |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) British 1800-1810.Aquatints 1800-1810. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum / by Mary Dorothy George, v. 8, no. 9916 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,037 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110077 |
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