A man of importance [graphic].

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Title: A man of importance [graphic].
Contributor: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Published / Created: [18--?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from caption below image.
Copy of a print by James Gillray with the same title.
Variant state lacking plate number in upper right. Cf. No. 9386A in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Seven lines of verse in two columns below image: -Ne'er may his whiskers loose their hue chang'd (like Moll Coggin's tail) to blue! ... vide Anti-Jacobin.
Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: quasi-military -- Sideburns -- Walking staves -- Literature: Quotation from the Ode to Lord Moira, by George Ellis (1753-1815) -- Periodicals: Anti Jacobin Review, no. XI.
Numbered '99' in contemporary hand in upper right corner of design; mounted to 37 x 29 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 29 x 22 cm
Edition: [State without plate no.].
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

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