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James Gillray
1756-1815
Mary of Buttermere : sketch'd from life, July, 1800 / Js. Gillray delt. & fect.
etching, hand colored
image: 305 x 244 mm; trimmed sheet: 349 x 276 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1848
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[London] : Publish'd Novr. 15th. 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, [1802]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Library's copy is partially trimmed within platemark.
Summary:
Print is a portrait of Mary Robinson (1778-1837); a young serving woman with keys at her waist and her hair dressed loosely with flowers, carrying a jug and two frothing glasses on a tray to table on the left, where an elderly man in a neckerchief sits smoking with a companion; a punch-bowl on a shelf and a large ham on a table behind to right; in a double frame. Cf. George
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