[Earl of Hertford]

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James Gillray
1756-1815
[Earl of Hertford]
etching, hand-colored
plate mark: 85 x 53 mm; sheet: 109 x 79 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2326
Published: 
[England?] : [publisher not identified], June 1st 1780.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Inscription: 

Inscribed "Lord Hertford" at foot of print.

Notes: 

Printmaker and title from BM Satires.

Summary: 

Caricature portrait of Francis Seymour Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, half-length in profile to the right, his hair or wig receding from his forehead is in a dark bag; wearing the ribbon and star of the Garter.

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