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James Gillray
1756-1815
Conquest / Kent fecit.
[London] : Pubd. July 11th 1783, by R. Wilkinson No. 58 Cornhill, [1783].
stipple engraving
image: 113 x 89 mm, oval; plate mark: 230 x 205 mm; sheet: 236 x 213 mm
Peel 2245
Notes
Gillray is known to have signed some of his prints during this period with the pseudonym "J. Kent" and "Kent fecit"; see, for example BM Satires 6131 & 6132, and item no. 1851,0901.1345, in the British Museum online catalog.
Title from print.
Caption title rendered in faintly stippled open letters.
Title from print.
Caption title rendered in faintly stippled open letters.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
An oval design showing a well dressed young woman with a small lap dog in her arms, and holding a letter (?) in one hand and a closed fan in the other.
Associated names
Wilkinson, Robert, -approximately 1825, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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