A peep at Christies, or, Tally-ho, & his nimeney-pimmeney taking the morning lounge / Js. Gy. ad vivam fecit.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
A peep at Christies, or, Tally-ho, & his nimeney-pimmeney taking the morning lounge / Js. Gy. ad vivam fecit.
hand colored aquatint
image: 35.2 x 24.9 cm; plate: 35.7 x 25.4 cm; sheet: 36.3 x 26.8 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2945
Published: 
[London] : H. Humphrey, 1796.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary: 

Miss Farren and Lord Derby, both in profile to the right, walk together inspecting pictures. She, very thin and tall, looks over his head through a glass at a picture in the second row of 'Zenocrates & Phryne'. He looks at the picture immediately below, 'The Death', a huntsman holding up a fox to the hounds. The frame is decorated by an earl's coronet with horses. Lord Derby, much caricatured, very short and obese, wears riding-dress with spurred boots and holds a whip. Miss Farren wears no hat, a dress hanging from the shoulders and trailing behind her, short sleeves and gloves. Both hold an open 'Catalogue'.

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