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James Gillray
1756-1815
Design for the new gallery of busts and pictures / Peter burgh inv. et fecit.
[London] : Pubd. March 17, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, [1792]
etching, hand colored
image: 245 x 315 mm; plate mark: 298 x 325 mm; sheet: 350 x 450 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.384
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By James Gillray.
Twenty lines of verse in five columns below image, followed by a paraphrased quote from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I: "and so far will I trust thee gentle Kate"
Twenty lines of verse in five columns below image, followed by a paraphrased quote from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I: "and so far will I trust thee gentle Kate"
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows interior view of a portrait gallery with busts of Demosthenes and Cicero, both frowning, and between them a bust of Charles J. Fox; hanging on the wall above are two prints showing Catherine II of Russia, in one, titled Justice, she is about to stab a sultan, in the other, Moderation, she is facing a map of Moldavia, Bessarabia, and Wallachia, which she embraces with outspread arms; hanging above the bust of Fox is a crowned circle inscribed "Conjugal love [-] A cure for the Haemerroidical Cholic" within which is a rope noose.
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Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
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