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Fortune-hunting
Title
Fortune-hunting [graphic] / B. [compass pointing north] Esq. del.
Publication
London : Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, [20 November 1804]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 25.4 x 39 cm, on sheet 27.7 x 41 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from Wright.
Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north.
Provenance
From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"A fat elderly man in hunting-cap has dismounted under an oak-tree to have his fortune told by a ragged old gipsy woman, who reads his hand. He listens, surprised and delighted, while another gipsy, kneeling beside him, with a child on her shoulders, picks his Pocket. Behind (l.) stands a groom in livery, gaping at the fortune told him by a pretty girl. Behind him a boy leans from a tree to rifle the portmanteau on his horse. The scene is the edge of a wood; in the distance two huntsmen are galloping."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 03, 2015
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10301
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, p. 313
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 531
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1804.
Etchings - England - London - 1804.
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