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James Gillray
1756-1815
General Count Clairfayt
stipple engraving
image: 233 x 197 mm; platemark: 325 x 253 mm; sheet 361 x 285 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2234
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; Genl Count Clairfayt; J Gillray.
Notes:
Title and imprint from lettered impression in the British Museum catalogue.
Library's copy is an impression before letters.
Summary:
Portrait; almost half-length directed and looking ahead to left, wearing a queue wig and a plain coat with a large badge of a maltese cross; in an oval frame within a rectangle.
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