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James Gillray
1756-1815
Tom Jones, Partridge & the beggar / invented, drawn, and engraved, by Js. Gillray.
[London] : Published by T. Macklin No.39, Fleet Street, [Septr. 14th 1780]
stipple engraving
image: 205 x 167 mm (oval); plate mark: 282 x 212 mm; sheet: 292 x 230 mm
Peel 2345
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Below caption: There Friend you are the happiest Man alive &:, / Fielding Tom Jones.
Printed in sepia ink.
The second plate of a pair of stipple engravings by Gillray illustrating Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones", numbered "Pl. 2d."; companion plate to: "Sophia, Honour & the Chambermaid."
A later state, with the engraved title and caption burnished out and partially legible.
Summary:
Illustration shows the beggar (at left, with his cane and bandaged foot), Partridge, and Tom (at right) standing among trees; Tom addresses the beggar while gesturing to a small "pocket book" he holds in his hand; the beggar frowns and holds out his hand to reveal a single coin in his palm.
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