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    • Author/Creator:Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
    • Title:Une femme d'esprit [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
    • Publication:[London] : Pubd. June 22d, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street, [22 June 1795]
    • Physical Description:1 print : etching ; oval design 19 x 15 cm, on plate 24.9 x 16.2 cm, on sheet 27 x 19 cm

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      • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
        Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room

      • Call Number: Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
      • Status:No information available 
      • Notes:1 print : etching on wove paper ; oval image 19.0 x 15.2 cm, on plate 24.9 x 16.3 cm, on sheet 28.8 x 20.3 cm.
        Mounted on leaf 72 of volume 8 of 12.
      • Provenance:From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
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      • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
        Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library

      • Call Number: 795.06.22.01 Impression 2
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Notes:1 print : etching ; oval design 19 x 15 cm., plate mark 24.9 x 16.2 cm., on sheet 27 x 19 cm.
        On wove paper.
      • Provenance:Old Print Shop; March 1961; Acquisitions no.: 961-3-1-102.
       
    • Medium:wove paper
    • Local Notes:Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: fichu -- Cap.
    • Notes:Title etched below image.
    • Summary:"Half length portrait, scarcely caricatured, of a woman in profile to the right, smiling. She has a long nose and projecting chin, and wears a muslin cap, her hair hangs down her back with the ends looped beneath its heavy mass. Her neck is much swathed and she wears a fichu over her dress."--British Museum online catalogue.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 8723
    • Subjects:Clothing & dress--England--1790-1800.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
      Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
      Riviere & Son--Binding.
    • Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1795.
      Etchings--England--London--1795.
    • Also listed under:Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8045160