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James Gillray
1756-1815
The Prince of Saxe-Coburg
stipple engraving
image: 232 x 195 mm; sheet 338 x 244 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2235
Published:
[London] : [Messrs. V. & R. Green, No, 13, Berners Street?], [1794?]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Inscription:
In pencil at foot of sheet: P.J. de Loutherbourg; Prince of Saxe-Coburg; J Gillray.
Notes:
Title and imprint from lettered impression in the British Museum catalogue.
Library's copy is an impression before letters.
Trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Portrait; almost half-length in profile to right, wearing a sash under his coat, frilled cravat and powdered queue wig; with trees behind; in an oval frame within a rectangle.
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