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James Gillray
1756-1815
Billy the gamekeeper / design'd from life by R. Frankland Esqr. ; engrav'd by Js. Gillray.
London : Publish'd April 23d 1810 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street, [1810]
etching and stipple engraving, hand colored
image: 311 x 242 mm; trimmed sheet: 362 x 255 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.661
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Notes:
Subject identified by Wright and Evans as Bates, a gamekeeper to George III; George, however, regards the identification as doubtful.
Summary:
Full length portrait of a man dressed as a coachman standing directed to the left, holding a long-lashed coach-whip. He wears a shiny round hat with cockade and gold band over a powdered wig with double row of curls, double-breasted waistcoat, shirt-frill, and loose coat reaching to the knee.
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