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The Prince of Saxe-Coburg

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James Gillray
1756-1815

The Prince of Saxe-Coburg

Published

[London] : [Messrs. V. & R. Green, No, 13, Berners Street?], [1794?]

stipple engraving
image: 232 x 195 mm; sheet 338 x 244 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2235
Notes
Title and imprint from lettered impression in the British Museum catalogue.
Library's copy is an impression before letters.
Trimmed within plate mark.
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil at foot of sheet: P.J. de Loutherbourg; Prince of Saxe-Coburg; J Gillray.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Portrait; almost half-length in profile to right, wearing a sash under his coat, frilled cravat and powdered queue wig; with trees behind; in an oval frame within a rectangle.

Associated names
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, artist.
Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, publisher.
Green, Rupert, 1768-1804, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints