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James Gillray
1756-1815
A duet : "Turn fair Clora, turn, ah cruel, turn again."
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image: 320 x 221 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2805
Published:
[London] : Pubd. May 14th 1792 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, [1792]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
By James Gillray.
Library's copy trimmed to within plate mark.
Summary:
Print shows a short, fat man dressed as a military officer, clasping the petticoats of a thin woman who walks away from him, looking over her left shoulder, her hand raised in a negative gesture. She is much taller than her admirer, and shows a homely profile, her mouth wide open. She wears a high cap and the extended petticoats which had recently been fashionable.
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