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., and James Gillray, English caricaturist, 1756-1815.
A drawing of six heads mostly in profile, three men, two ladies, and one child, all wearing hats. One lady in the upper right is a view from the back with only a hit of her check shown while the man in the foreground is shown full-face. A drawing in the lower left has been heavily scored through. From the left margin mid-sheet is a drawing of a sleeved-wrist and hand hold a stick(?).
Alternative Title:
Miscellaneous heads
Description:
Title from dealer's description; alternative title from Draper Hill., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Date from Draper Hill., and A drawing from a sketchbook given by Gillray to the Rev. John Sneyd in the late 1790s.