A bravura air [graphic] : Mandane / Js. Gillray ad vivm. fect.

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Title: A bravura air [graphic] : Mandane / Js. Gillray ad vivm. fect.
Alternative Title: Mandane
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Billington, Elizabeth,--1765-1818--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: 1801 December 2
Copyright Date: [22 December 1801]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "Mrs. Billington, directed to the right, sings with head thrown back, right hand on her breast, left arm extended. She is stout and majestic, wears many jewels and quasi-contemporary dress, with four tall feathers and jewelled aigrette in her hair, from which hangs a long drapery."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Title etched at top of image.
Extent: 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.7 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 39.9 x 29.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1801.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1801.
Stipple engravings--England--London--1801.
Watermarks (Paper)--J. Ruse.--CtY-BR
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Billington, Elizabeth,--1765-1818--Caricatures and cartoons.
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. 8, no. 9765
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 508
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 284