[Sketch of a robed man] [art original]

Description

Title: [Sketch of a robed man] [art original]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1805]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A man with raised arms stands over a fire. Notes by the artist throughout the image and on verso
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Signed lower left in ink: James Gillray.
Illegible jottings throughout the sketch with notes; sketch accompanied by a separate manuscript with details about the sketch.
Preliminary sketch, possibly for his print End of the Irish farce of Catholic emancipation, published by H. Humphrey 17 May 1805.
James Gillray, English caricaturist, 1756-1815.
Provenance: Purchased from Draper Hill, 1971.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 17 x 11 cm
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; sheet 17 x 11 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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Citation: James Gillray, Sketch of a Robed Man. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.