Thirty years have I lived in the parish of Covent Garden ... [graphic].

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Title: Thirty years have I lived in the parish of Covent Garden ... [graphic].
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [16 December 1797]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. 16 Decr. 1797 by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "A face, wearing a plumed military hat, looks to the right out of a ferociously spurred military jack-boot which stands in profile to the left. The back of the head is concealed by the peak of the boot, which protects the wearer's knee. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Title continues: ... and nobody can say, Mistress Cole, why did you so?
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Literature: reference to Samuel Foote's Minor.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.2 x 17.7 cm, on sheet 29.2 x 20.1 cm.
Mounted on leaf 62 of volume 9 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 : sheet 37 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1797
Etchings England London 1797
Watermarks (Paper) Edmeads & Co.
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Watson, Robert, 1746-1838
Subjects: Watson, Robert, 1746-1838 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1797
England > London > 1797
Edmeads & Co.
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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