Paille d'avoine, paille d'avoine [graphic]

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Title: Paille d'avoine, paille d'avoine [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Leigh, Samuel Egerton.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [10 November 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Novr. 10th, 1786, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Abstract: An old French woman wearing sabots walks to the right carrying a large sack strapped to her back
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.4 x 16.4 cm, on sheet 23.4 x 18.3 cm.
Mounted on leaf 35 of volume 7 of 12.
Provenance: From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21.0 x 16.1 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Caricatures England 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): France.
Subject (Topic): Older people
Peasants
Subjects: Older people > France
Peasants > France
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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