A Bravura Air: Mandane

James Gillray, English, 1756 - 1815

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1801

Hand colored etching on wove paper

Sheet: 19 × 12 3/4 in. (48.3 × 32.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

PR.X.270

Publisher

Hannah Humphrey (about 1745-1818), London

Geography

Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, upper left: A Bravura Air; upper right: MANDANE; lower right: J.s Gillray ad viv. fect / Published Dec.r 22th 1801 by H. Humphrey. 27 St. James's Street.

Course History

WRIT 5, Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2014

ARTH 28.10, Fashion in Art, Kristin O'Rourke, Fall 2022

Exhibition History

James Gillray: Prints by the Eighteenth Century Master of Caricature, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 8 - March 13, 1994

Publication History

Katherine W. Hart with the assistance of Laura Hacker, "James Gillray: Prints by the Eighteenth Century Master of Caricature", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1994, catalog no. 51, p. 44.

Provenance

Source unknown.

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