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James Gillray
1756-1815
Mounted Officer
Published
[London?] : [publisher not identified, [approximately 1803]
etching
image: 204 x 225 mm, plate mark: 227 x 252 mm; sheet: 381 x 275 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 3105
Notes
Title, attribution, and date from British Museum online catalog.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
An elderly officer canters in profile to the left, past a camp with crowded tents in the background. He wears an old-fashioned cocked hat and small pigtail, and holds up a cane in his right. hand. He holds the snaffle, the curb being tucked under the saddle, and has a fixed smile. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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