Call Number: 799.05.16.01 - Yale University Library Search Results

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Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [16 May 1799]
Call Number:: 799.05.16.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Lord Moira, rigid and impassive, stands in profile to the left, right hand on his tasselled stick, left hand on hip, wearing quasi-military dress with looped cocked hat and high boots. Clouds, so coloured as to suggest a distant conflagration, and a low horizon, curved as if to indicate the edge of the globe, form a background. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Seven lines of quoted verse below image in two columns, one on either side of title: "Ne'er may his whiskers loose their hue, "chang'd (like Moll Coggin's tail) to blue! ... vide Anti-Jacobin., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: quasi-military -- Male fashion: sideburns -- Walking staves -- Literature: Quotation from the Ode to Lord Moira, by George Ellis (1753-1815) -- Periodicals: Anti Jacobin Review, no. XI.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 16th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Name):: Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A man of importance [graphic]