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A burgess of Warwick Lane / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

A burgess of Warwick Lane / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

Published

[London] : H. Humphrey, 1795.

hand colored etching
image: 24.7 x 15.7 cm; plate: 25.1 x 17.5 cm; sheet: 27.5 x 19.6 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2888
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

A man walks on tiptoe away from the spectator. He is ungainly, the left shoulder lower than the right, with ill-dressed hair in a small tail. He wears a grotesque cocked hat poised on his head, an old-fashioned coat, and striped stockings. The stone wall of a house, showing part of a street-door and one window, forms a background.

Associated names
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department