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James Gillray
1756-1815
"Prætor-Urbanus" : inauguration of the Coptic mayor of Cairo, preceded by the Procureur de la Commune / etched by Js. Gillray, from the original intercepted drawing.
[London] : Pubd March 12th 1799 by H. Humphrey St James's Street, [1799]
etching, hand colored
image: 245 x 367 mm; plate mark: 256 x 374 mm; sheet: 316 x 468 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.454
Notes
One of seven plates on the French Expedition to Egypt by Gillray, purported to have been drawn by a fellow expedition member.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a barefoot, pot-bellied Copt holding a mace or staff and riding on an ass which, though led processionally by a naked Copt, proceeds on account of the bayonet with which a grinning French soldier stabs its hind quarters.
Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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