Maecenas, in pursuit of the fine-arts [graphic] : scene, Pall Mall; a frosty-morning / Js. Gillray ad vivam fect.

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Title: Maecenas, in pursuit of the fine-arts [graphic] : scene, Pall Mall; a frosty-morning / Js. Gillray ad vivam fect.
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Published / Created: 1808 May 9
Copyright Date: [9 May 1808]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "A man walks along the pavement in profile to the left., stooping from the waist but with head erect. He wears spectacles and carries a stick. He approaches the door (left) of Christies, which is partly visible. On the pillar hangs the usual catalogue: 'Catalogue of 800 Capital Pictures to be Sold by Mr Christie in Pall Mall. Feby 1st 1808'. The wall of the house (No. 125) with a window forms the background. Snow is heaped against the railings, where there is a shovel and broom."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.8 x 19.8 cm, on sheet 29 x 23 cm
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1808.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1808.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower,--Duke of,--1758-1833--Caricatures and cartoons.

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. 11076, Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 560, and Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 360