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James Gillray
1756-1815
Modern elegance : a portrait.
[London] : Pubd May 22d 1795 by H Humphrey, N 37 New Bond Street, [1795]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.188
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[London] : Pubd. May 22d 1795 by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street, [1795]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Portrait identified as that of Lady Charlotte Campbell, afterwards Lady Bury, her head in profile and looking sideways at her own reflection in a large wall-mirror. She wears a loose high-waisted dress, her figure defined under its folds. Locks of hair are twined in, and escape from, a turbanlike cap ornamented with four erect ostrich feathers.
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