Pylades & Orestes [graphic] / Js. Gy. ad vivam fect.

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Title: Pylades & Orestes [graphic] / Js. Gy. ad vivam fect.
Alternative Title: Pylades and Orestes
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
William--V,--Prince of Orange,--1748-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created: 1797 April 1
Copyright Date: [1 April 1797]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, New Bond Street & St. James's Street
Abstract: "The stout Prince of Orange, in profile to the left, shuffles along the pavement, holding the arm of his thin secretary, Nassalin. His eye is almost closed, his right hand, holding a stick, is thrust in his coat pocket. Both are plainly dressed, wearing powdered hair with small tails, and round hats with broad brims. Nassalin is hunchbacked."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.3 x 26.3 cm, on sheet 48 x 30 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.
Watermarks (Paper)--J Whatman--1794.--CtY-LW
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
William--V,--Prince of Orange,--1748-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic): Walking.

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. 9065
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 433
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 229