Modern Grace, 1796

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Medium

etching and engraving with publisher's hand coloring on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 23.9 × 35.2 cm (9 7/16 × 13 7/8 in.)

sheet: 30 × 48 cm (11 13/16 × 18 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Wright and Evans 1851, no. 431

Accession Number

2013.170.3

Artists / Makers

James Gillray (artist) British, 1757 - 1815

Hannah Humphrey (publisher) British, c.1745 - 1818

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in image: Js Gy d. et f ; lower right in plate: Pubd May 5th 1796 by H Humphrey New Bond Street; lower cetner in plate: MODERN GRACE, or the Operatical Finale to the Ballet of Alonzo e caro

Provenance

Minto Wilson, London (Lugt 1922a). (Andrew Edmunds, London); purchased by NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Edmunds, Andrew
Wilson, Minto

Bibliography

1851: Wright, Thomas and Robert H. Evans. Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray; Comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George the Third. London, 1851. Reprint. NY: B. Blom, 1968: no. 431