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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Affability / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

Affability / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

Published

[London] : Pub'd Feb'y 10th, 1795 by H. Humphrey, No. 37, New Bond Street, [February 10, 1795]

aquatint
image: 358 x 235 mm; plate: 355 x 251 mm; sheet: 397 x 288 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2851
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

The King in profile to the right, with the Queen holding his right arm, leans towards a startled yokel who clutches his hat and a bucket. Behind the yokel (right) are pigs sniffing at the bucket and the gable end of buildings. All are caricatured. The King wears riding-dress, with a broad-brimmed hat and a spencer over his coat. He stands as if knock-kneed, his legs awkwardly splayed out. The Queen is dwarfish, wearing a hood over her hat and a shapeless cloak. In her right hand is a snuff-box. The yokel, wearing smock and gaiters, has the staring eyes, lantern jaws, and gaping mouth characteristic of Gillray's sansculottes. Beneath the title: '"Well, Friend, where a' you going, Hay? - what's your Name, hay? - where d'ye Live, hay? - hay?"'

Associated names
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
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