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Enter Cowslip with a bowl of cream / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

Enter Cowslip with a bowl of cream / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

Published

[London] : H. Humphrey, 1795.

hand colored etching
image: 33 x 22 cm; plate: 35 x 24.7 cm; sheet: 37.8 x 26.7 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2872
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

An enormously fat lady stands in profile to the l., holding a bowl resembling a punch-bowl, her left hand on her hip, holding up the frilled apron which drapes her quilted petticoat.

Associated names
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department