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James Gillray
1756-1815
Making-decent : i.e. broad-bottomites getting into the grand costume / Js. Gillray invt. & fect.
[London] : Pubd. Feby 20th. 1806 -by H. Humphrey- No 27. St James's Street, [1806]
etching, hand colored
image: 234 x 345 mm; plate mark: 246 x 348 mm; sheet: 285 x 407 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.651
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows members of the new Ministry, including Fox, Grey, Sidmouth, Vansittart, Lord Henry Petty, Windham, Lord Grenville, Moira, Duke of Bedford, Tierney, Lord Spencer, Sheridan, and Erskine, in a handsome room preparing themselves for office, with each intent on his toilet and new official wardrobe.
Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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