Flemish characters / drawn and engraved by James Gillray, 1783.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Flemish characters / drawn and engraved by James Gillray, 1783.
hand colored etching
image: 22.4 x 35.7 cm; plate: 23.3 x 36.4 cm; sheet: 23.8 x 37.7 cm
Peel 2808
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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A companion print to Peel 2808 (George 8383), of the same title.

Summary: 

A scene at the door of a Flemish church (right) in a small square. A procession of little girls, uniformly dressed, wearing aprons and sabots, each with a large book under her arm, enters the church, the smallest in the rear. They are followed (left) by a fat Flemish woman wearing a hooded cloak, a book in her hand, a birch-rod hanging from her wrist. On the extreme left a little boy walks between his stout parents, taking a hand of each. Behind, three men are indicated, also with books. On the right three nuns approach the door, skirting the wall of the church. Above their heads is a crucifix in a niche. In the background are gabled buildings.

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