Patern-staff [graphic] : Weymouth, 1797.

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Title: Patern-staff [graphic] : Weymouth, 1797.
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
William Frederick,--Duke of Gloucester,--1776-1834--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created: 1797 November 3
Copyright Date: [3 November 1797]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "An officer stands in back view, with his elbows akimbo, holding a small cane. He is thin and knock-kneed, with stick-like legs, his feet splayed outwards. He wears a plumed cocked hat, a sash round his small waist, spurred boots, and a sabre."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26 x 17 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1797.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1797.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
William Frederick,--Duke of Gloucester,--1776-1834--Caricatures and cartoons.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9070
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 474
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 231