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James Gillray
1756-1815
Remembrance / J. Gillray invt. et fecit.
[London] : Pubd. August 1st. 1784, by Rt. Wilkinson No. 58 Cornhill, [1784].
stipple engraving
image: 85 x 70 mm, oval; plate mark: 226 x 200 mm; sheet: 242 x 217 mm
Peel 2253
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Appears to be a companion print to Gillray's stipple engraving "Absence".
Lettered with six lines of verse from a poem by Aphra Behn, below image; first line: Where-e'er I turn the Landskip does confess ...
Summary:
Oval design shows a lovelorn young shepherdess in rustic dress, holding a crook and looking back over her shoulder tearfully to left.
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