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James Gillray
1756-1815
General Count Clairfayt
Published
[London] : [Messrs. V. & R. Green, No, 13, Berners Street?], [1794?]
stipple engraving
image: 233 x 197 mm; platemark: 325 x 253 mm; sheet 361 x 285 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2234
Notes
Title and imprint from lettered impression in the British Museum catalogue.
Library's copy is an impression before letters.
Library's copy is an impression before letters.
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil at foot of sheet: P.J. de Loutherbourg; Genl Count Clairfayt; J Gillray.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Portrait; almost half-length directed and looking ahead to left, wearing a queue wig and a plain coat with a large badge of a maltese cross; 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.
Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, publisher.
Green, Rupert, 1768-1804, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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