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James Gillray
1756-1815
A connoisseur examining a Cooper / Js. Gy. del. et fecit ad vivam.
etching with stipple engraving
image: 320 x 222 mm; sheet: 353 x 253 mm; mount: 380 x 276 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2787
Published:
[London] : Pubd. June 18th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, [18 June 1792]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Title from text below image.
Library's copy is a proof on tissue, mounted on paper backing.
Summary:
King George III (three-quarter length) stands in profile to the left, nearsightedly examining an oval miniature of Oliver Cromwell by the light of a candle held in his left hand. The half length, looking to the right, in armour, probably derives from the pl. after Cooper in Mechell's ed. of Rapin's 'History', 1733. The candlestick is of massive plate holding a candle-end supported on a save-all. The King is only slightly caricatured, but his receding forehead and chin and open mouth are exaggerated.
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