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James Gillray
1756-1815
An emblem of a modern marriage / drawn by M H. from a sketch cut with a diamond on a pane of glass.
[London] : Publish'd according to act of Parliament June 15, 1775, [1775].
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image: 193 x 190 mm; plate mark: 227 x 207 mm; sheet: 242 x 222 mm
Peel 2296
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Attributed to Gillray by Grego.
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Two lines of verse from Lord Hervey's "Reply to Hammond's Verses to Miss Dashwood". In: Dodsley's Collection of Poems, iv. 73-8, etched below image: ------no smiles for us the God head wears! / His torch inverted & his face in tears!
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Two lines of verse from Lord Hervey's "Reply to Hammond's Verses to Miss Dashwood". In: Dodsley's Collection of Poems, iv. 73-8, etched below image: ------no smiles for us the God head wears! / His torch inverted & his face in tears!
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Print shows two figures standing side by side: a skeleton (left) wearing a feathered hat, a coat, and sword, a lady (right) holding a cloak round her, and wearing feathers in her hair. She points with her left hand to a rectangular tomb, on which is inscribed "Requiescas in pace" beneath a skull and cross-bones. They are standing on a road which leads to a large country house with a Palladian portico over which is a baron's coronet. In the air a cupid flies away, covering his face with his hand and holding his torch reversed.
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Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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