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James Gillray
1756-1815
A man of importance / Js. Gillray ad vivam fect.
London : Pubd May 16th, 1799, by H Humphrey, 27 St James's Street, [1799]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.302
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London : Pubd May 16th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, [1799]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Flanking caption title: "Ne'er may his Whiskers loose their hue, " Chang'd (like Moll Coggin's tail) to blue! "But still - "New Grace adorn his figure; "More stiff his boots, more black his stock, "His hat assume a prouder cock, "Like Pistol's, (would 'twere bigger!) Vide Anti Jacobin.
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Print shows Lord Moira, rigid and impassive, stands in profile to the left, right hand on his tasselled stick, left hand on hip, wearing quasi-military dress with looped cocked hat and high boots. Clouds, so coloured as to suggest a distant conflagration, and a low horizon, curved as if to indicate the edge of the globe, form a background.
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