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James Gillray
1756-1815
The country politicians
etching with engraving, hand colored
image: 101 x 165 mm; plate mark: 108 x 167 mm; sheet: 113 x 176 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2319
Published:
[London] : Publish'd Jany. 11, 1784, 227 Strand, London by W. Humphrey, [1784].
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Printmaker from BM Satires.
Originally issued March 7, 1777; believed to be Gillray's first etching.
At head of image: The Parson, Barber & the Squire, / Three Social Souls who News admire.
Library's copy has date "Jany. 11, 1784" scratched out and "Mar 7th 1777" written over it in ink.
Summary:
Three men are seated around a table, including, from left to right, a squire wearing spectacles and reading aloud from the Daily Advertiser, a parson in the center smoking a pipe and raising a glass of punch, and a barber with his wig askew on the right.
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