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James Gillray
1756-1815
Mounted Officer
etching
image: 204 x 225 mm, plate mark: 227 x 252 mm; sheet: 381 x 275 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 3105
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[London?] : [publisher not identified, [approximately 1803]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Title, attribution, and date from British Museum online catalog.
Summary:
An elderly officer canters in profile to the left, past a camp with crowded tents in the background. He wears an old-fashioned cocked hat and small pigtail, and holds up a cane in his right. hand. He holds the snaffle, the curb being tucked under the saddle, and has a fixed smile. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
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