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Modern-elegance a portrait
Title
Modern-elegance [graphic] : a portrait.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. May 22d, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street, [22 May 1795]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 35.2 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 36 x 27 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom edge.
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 lady sits in an armchair, her head titled back to the side so that she can see her reflection in the large mirror on the wall behind her. She wears a loose high-waisted dress, giving the appearance of pregnancy, her full figure and large breasts are well-defined. She is wearing gloves and a turban adorned with ostrich feathers. Long locks of hair escaped from the turban, and she holds a fan in her right hand. Beneath the chair is a patterned carpet.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 20, 2007
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 8719
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, p. 196
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 400
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1795.
Etchings - England - London - 1795.
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Watermarks (Paper) - Edmeads & Co. - 1811.
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