"The inexpressible air of dignity, the incomprehensible je-ne-scais-quoi of elegance ... [graphic] / Js. Gillray inv. & ft.

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Title
"The inexpressible air of dignity, the incomprehensible je-ne-scais-quoi of elegance ... [graphic] / Js. Gillray inv. & ft.
Creator
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Marlborough, George Spencer Churchill,--Duke of,--1766-1840--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created
1803 March 9
Copyright Date
[9 March 1803]
Publication Place
[London]
Publisher
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract

"The Marquis of Blandford walks in profile to the left. on a flagged pavement. He is stiffly erect, a cane held horizontally in his right. hand, his left. arm hanging vertically. He has sloping shoulders and long arms, and wears a double-breasted tail-coat with a high collar and modified Jean-de-Bry sleeve (see BMSat 9425) with Hessian boots."--British Museum online catalogue.

Description
Title continues: ... "which appertains solely to men of high fashion." Vide Lord Chesterfields Letters.
Title from first line of quoted text below image.
Extent
1 print : etching & stipple engraving with roulette on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.3 x 19.3 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
still image
Genre
Etchings--England--London--1803.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1803.
Stipple engravings--England--London--1803.
Subject (Name)
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Marlborough, George Spencer Churchill,--Duke of,--1766-1840--Caricatures and cartoons.

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Rights
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Citation
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10158
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 237
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 308

Identifiers

Orbis Record
12516489
Object ID (OID)
11861146

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