Count Roupee [graphic].

Description

Title: Count Roupee [graphic].
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Benfield, Paul,--approximately 1740-1810--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: 1797 June 5
Copyright Date: [5 June 1797]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "A small ugly man rides a galloping horse in profile to the left, his leg thrust forward. He wears spectacles, his complexion is dark. There is a background of grass and trees, and in the distance a building with a pediment, evidently the new Knightsbridge Barracks (see 'Gent. Mag.', July 1797, p. 545, pl.)."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Text following title: Vide Hyde Park.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 36 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)--Turkey Mills J Whatman.--CtY-LW
Watermarks (Paper)--Turkey Mills J. Whatman--1818.--CtY-BR
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Benfield, Paul,--approximately 1740-1810--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

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. 9066
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 401
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 230