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Une femme d'esprit / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

Une femme d'esprit / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

Published

[London] : H. Humphrey, 1795

hand colored etching
image: 21.4 x 15 cm; plate: 24.7 x 16.3 cm; sheet: 25.8 x 17.3 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2869
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Design in an oval. Half length portrait, scarcely caricatured, of a woman in profile to the right, smiling. She has a long nose and projecting chin, and wears a muslin cap, her hair hangs down her back with the ends looped beneath its heavy mass. Her neck is much swathed and she wears a fichu over her dress.

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