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James Gillray
1756-1815
A modern cherub : vide Peters.
etching
image: 119 x 78 mm; plate: 130 x 88 mm; sheet: 196 x 129 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2731
Published:
[London] : Pubd. by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, Novr. 16th 1791
Summary:
The head and shoulders of a woman, caricatured, in profile to the right, singing with upturned eyes, holding up a paper in both hands. A wing, foreshortened, and very freely sketched, extends diagonally across her shoulder, and has some resemblance to a part of her dress; her hair is loosely arranged, but its contour is fashionable; her face is blotched with drink. Clouds and a ray of light are indicated in the background.
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