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Joshua Gleadah
active 1815-1836
An exquisite day
Published
London : Publish'd by Cribb, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, February 1820
hand-colored etching with aquatint
image: 100 x 347 mm; plate mark: 173 x 395 mm
Peel 2116
Notes
Does not appear in George, M.D. Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
Printed below image: Drawn by [image of an eye and three stars] Esqr. / London. Publish'd. Feby. 1820, by Cribb, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. / Engraved by J. Gleadah.
Trimmed to plate mark.
Printed below image: Drawn by [image of an eye and three stars] Esqr. / London. Publish'd. Feby. 1820, by Cribb, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. / Engraved by J. Gleadah.
Trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Several fashionable ladies and gentlemen mill about, greeting each other, including three soldiers at extreme right and a pair of ladies in the center. Two less fashionable men stand at the extreme left, laughing at the others.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Cribb, William, ca. 1789-1870, publisher.
Cribb, William, ca. 1789-1870, publisher.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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