General Count Clairfayt

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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.
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.
Classification
Department
Century prints