Palemon and Lavinia [graphic] / J.C. Esqe. delt.

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Title: Palemon and Lavinia [graphic] / J.C. Esqe. delt.
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: 1805 January 23
Copyright Date: [23 January 1805]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "A loutish yokel (l.), holding a pitchfork, grins avidly at a hideous and elderly country woman who crouches behind a stile (r.), her features twisted in a sly grimace. In the background (l.) men reap a corn-field, and corn-stooks cover a more distant hill. Lavinia is framed in foliage, with autumn leaves and a withered tree."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Two lines of quoted text following title: "He saw her charming; but he saw not half" "the charms her downcast modesty conceal'd."
Extent: 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 35.7 cm, on sheet 30 x 40 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Aquatints--England--London--1805.
Etchings--England--London--1805.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1805.
Watermarks (Paper)--J. Whatman Turkey Mills.--CtY-BR
Watermarks (Paper)--J. Whatman--CtY-LW
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
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. 8, no. 10480
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 325