A burgess of Warwick Lane [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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Title: A burgess of Warwick Lane [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 July 3
Copyright Date: [3 July 1795]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Abstract: "A man walks on tiptoe away from the spectator. He is ungainly, the left shoulder lower than the right, with ill-dressed hair in a small tail. He wears a grotesque cocked hat poised on his head, an old-fashioned coat, and striped stockings. The stone wall of a house, showing part of a street-door and one window, forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Title etched at bottom of image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 17 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.

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. 8717
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 418
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 198