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James Gillray
1756-1815
Billy the gamekeeper
Published
[London] : [H. Humphrey], [1810]
etching
plate mark: 359 x 262 mm; sheet: 375 x 276 mm
Peel 3140
Notes
Etched by James Gillray after a design by Robert Frankland.
Title, attribution, date and production information from lettered state.
Subject identified by Wright and Evans as Bates, a gamekeeper to George III; George, however, regards the identification as doubtful.
Early state, before letters, addition of a border, and before the shading of the ground beneath the figure.
Title, attribution, date and production information from lettered state.
Subject identified by Wright and Evans as Bates, a gamekeeper to George III; George, however, regards the identification as doubtful.
Early state, before letters, addition of a border, and before the shading of the ground beneath the figure.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Full length portrait of a man dressed as a coachman standing directed to the left, holding a long-lashed coach-whip. He wears a shiny round hat with cockade and band over a powdered wig with double row of curls, double-breasted waistcoat, shirt-frill, and loose coat reaching to the knee.
Associated names
Frankland, Robert, Sir, 1784-1849, designer.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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