Independence / Js. Gillray ad vivum fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Independence / Js. Gillray ad vivum fect.
[London] : Pubd June 9th, 1799, by H Humphrey, 27 St James's Street, [1799]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.637
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[London] : Pubd June 9th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, [1799]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Print shows Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones standing in the House of Commons, directed to the left, right arm raised, snapping his fingers, left hand in the pocket of his long waistcoat, legs apart. He is corpulent, bald except for his queue, but with bushy whiskers. His plain long coat with half-boots denotes the country gentleman. His speech is etched across the upper part of the design: 'Im an Independent Man, Sir, - & I don't care That! who hears me say so! - I dont like Wooden Shoes! no Sir, neither French Wooden Shoes, no nor English Wooden shoes, neither! -... [etc.].

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