Cupid [graphic] / Js. Gillray d. & f.

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Title: Cupid [graphic] / Js. Gillray d. & f.
Alternative Title: New pantheon ; no. 4
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Nicholls, John,--1745?-1832--Caricatures and cartoons.
Copyright Date: [7 May 1799]
Abstract: "The ugly and ungainly Nicholls, naked except for floating drapery, and with heavy, feathered wings, stands directed to the right, drawing the string of his bow. He stands on clouds which form a background."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: No. 4 in a series of six prints with a frontispiece entitled: New pantheon of democratic mythology.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1799.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1799.
Watermarks (Paper)--J. Whatman Turkey Mills--1817.--CtY-BR
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Nicholls, John,--1745?-1832--Caricatures and cartoons.

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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9378
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 259