Une femme d'esprit [graphic]

Description

Title: Une femme d'esprit [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [22 June 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. June 22d, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Abstract: "Half length portrait, scarcely caricatured, of a woman in profile to the right, smiling. She has a long nose and projecting chin, and wears a muslin cap, her hair hangs down her back with the ends looped beneath its heavy mass. Her neck is much swathed and she wears a fichu over her dress."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: fichu -- Cap.
1 print : etching on wove paper ; oval image 19.0 x 15.2 cm, on plate 24.9 x 16.3 cm, on sheet 28.8 x 20.3 cm.
Mounted on leaf 72 of volume 8 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 : oval design 19 x 15 cm, on plate 24.9 x 16.2 cm, on sheet 27 x 19 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Subjects: Clothing & dress > England > 1790-1800
England > 1795
England > London > 1795
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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