A man of importance [graphic]

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Title: A man of importance [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [16 May 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. May 16th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Abstract: "Lord Moira, rigid and impassive, stands in profile to the left, right hand on his tasselled stick, left hand on hip, wearing quasi-military dress with looped cocked hat and high boots. Clouds, so coloured as to suggest a distant conflagration, and a low horizon, curved as if to indicate the edge of the globe, form a background. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Seven lines of quoted verse below image in two columns, one on either side of title: "Ne'er may his whiskers loose their hue, "chang'd (like Moll Coggin's tail) to blue! ... vide Anti-Jacobin.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: quasi-military -- Male fashion: sideburns -- Walking staves -- Literature: Quotation from the Ode to Lord Moira, by George Ellis (1753-1815) -- Periodicals: Anti Jacobin Review, no. XI.
Provenance: Old Print Shop ; 1961.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
Subjects: Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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