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Une femme d'esprit : / Js. Gy. des et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

Une femme d'esprit : / Js. Gy. des et fect.

[London] : Pubd. June 22d 1795 by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street, [1795]
etching, hand colored
image: 190 x 150 mm, oval; plate mark: 248 x 162 mm; sheet: 307 x 240 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.399
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Oval design with a half length portrait 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
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
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