The shadow of a duke / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
The shadow of a duke / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
hand colored etching
image: 30 x 20.8 cm; sheet: 35.5 x 24.8 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2862
Published: 
[London] : H. Humphrey, 1795.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Trimmed to plate mark.
Etching is slightly aquatinted.
Subject may be Douglas, 8th Duke of Hamilton.

Summary: 

A man walks away from the spectator, slightly to the r., showing a whiskered r. cheek.

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