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James Gillray
1756-1815
A back view of the cape / Miss Keate delt.
hand colored etching with stipple engraving
image: 275 x 195 mm; sheet: 295 x 233 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2766
Published:
[London] : Pubd. March 23rd 1792 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street [1792]
Notes:
Title from caption.
Printmaker from BM Satires.
Trimmed to within plate mark.
Summary:
A fashionably dressed man stands in back view, a round hat in his hand, a bludgeon under his left arm. He wears a tail-coat with a large cape-like collar with revers. Above this appears the high stiff collar at the back of his waistcoat. His hair falls on his coat collar and his shoulders are frosted with hair-powder (a fashion of the day). He wears half-boots and breeches tied below the knee with a bunch of strings.
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