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Paille d'avoine, paille d'avoine
Title
Paille d'avoine, paille d'avoine [graphic] / drawn by Saml. Egerton Leigh, Esqr.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. Novr. 10th, 1786, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [10 November 1786]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 21.0 x 16.1 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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
An old French woman wearing sabots walks to the right carrying a large sack strapped to her back.
Format
Images
Language
French
Added to Catalog
January 23, 2007
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 7085
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, page 83
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 372
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1786.
Caricatures - England - 1786.
Etchings - England - London - 1786.
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