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James Gillray
1756-1815
Une femme d'esprit / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
hand colored etching
image: 21.4 x 15 cm; plate: 24.7 x 16.3 cm; sheet: 25.8 x 17.3 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2869
Published:
[London] : H. Humphrey, 1795
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary:
Design in an oval. Half length portrait, scarcely caricatured, of a woman in profile to the right, smiling. She has a long nose and projecting chin, and wears a muslin cap, her hair hangs down her back with the ends looped beneath its heavy mass. Her neck is much swathed and she wears a fichu over her dress.
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