"Oh! that this too too solid flesh would melt" [graphic].

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Title: "Oh! that this too too solid flesh would melt" [graphic].
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: 1791 March 20
Copyright Date: [20 March 1791]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Abstract: "A very short and corpulent woman stands full face, her handkerchief is raised towards her face as if to mop it, her left arm is clasped by a man of similar proportions, who kneels in profile to the left, looking up at her with a pained expression."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Text in lower right corner below image: Design'd for the Shakespeare Gallery.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22 x 24 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1791.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1791.
Stipple engravings--England--London--1791.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 8013
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 421
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 125