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James Gillray
1756-1815
A burgess of Warwick Lane / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
hand colored etching
image: 24.7 x 15.7 cm; plate: 25.1 x 17.5 cm; sheet: 27.5 x 19.6 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2888
Published:
[London] : H. Humphrey, 1795.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary:
A man walks on tiptoe away from the spectator. He is ungainly, the left shoulder lower than the right, with ill-dressed hair in a small tail. He wears a grotesque cocked hat poised on his head, an old-fashioned coat, and striped stockings. The stone wall of a house, showing part of a street-door and one window, forms a background.
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