[Bombardinian] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Bombardinian] [graphic].
Published / Created: [not before 1779]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from published version.
Date of publication based on questionable date assigned to published version. See British Museum catalogue.
Copy in reverse of a print made by James Gillray and published by William Humphrey. Cf. No. 5608 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Manuscript note in ink in a contemporary hand identifies the figure on the left side of design as Sir Robert Hamilton; additional manuscript note at bottom of plate: The only impression from the plate. I destroy'd the plate.
Mounted on leaf 8 of volume 1 of 12.
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.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35.2 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1779
Etchings England London 1779
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching with aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Cooper, Grey, Sir, approximately 1726-1801
Subjects: Cooper, Grey, Sir, approximately 1726-1801 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1779
England > London > 1779
18th century
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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