Miser's feast,eating meal,Death,naked manservant,cartoon,Great Britain,1786

Title: The miser's feast
Creator(s): Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist
Date Created/Published: London : by W. Holland, 1786 March 6th.
Summary: Cartoon shows a miser seated at a table eating a meager meal; Death stands off to the right as an emaciated and naked manservant holding in his right hand a tray with a bone on it and behind him, in his left hand, the dart of death; Famine, a withered hag, naked to the waist which funnels to a point, wearing a large hat and fashionable skirt, stands at the open door through which enter a fashionably dressed prostitute and another woman carrying stolen articles to leave with the miser. Padlocked chests and cupboards, moneybags, and plastered-over windows (for tax savings purposes) attest to the avarice and miserliness of the occupant.
Notes:
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7083
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: Gillray and the Art of Caricature.
Subjects:
Misers--Great Britain--1780-1790.
Eating & drinking--Great Britain--1780-1790.
Miserliness--1780-1790.
Avarice--1780-1790.
Prostitution--Great Britain--1780-1790.
Death--1780-1790.
Aquatints--1780-1790.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1780-1790.
Etchings--1780-1790.
Bookmark /2001695206/
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