Une femme d'esprit [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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Title: Une femme d'esprit [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: 1795 June 22
Copyright Date: [22 June 1795]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: 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.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; 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

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1795.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1795.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress--England--1790-1800.

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8723