File:A connoisseur examining a Cooper. (BM 1851,0901.614).jpg
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[edit]A connoisseur examining a Cooper.
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Print made by: James Gillray
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| Title |
A connoisseur examining a Cooper. |
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| Description |
English: George III (three-quarter length) stands in profile to the left, nearsightedly examining an oval miniature of Oliver Cromwell by the light of a candle held in his left hand. The half length, looking to the right, in armour, probably derives from the pl. after Cooper in Mechell's ed. of Rapin's 'History', 1733. The candlestick is of massive plate holding a candle-end supported on a save-all (cf. BMSat 8091). The King is only slightly caricatured, but his receding forehead and chin and open mouth are exaggerated. 18 June 1792
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Oliver Cromwell | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1792 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
1851,0901.614 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The print is said (by Angelo) to have been Gillray's retaliation for the contempt with which the King treated the sketches brought back from his foreign tour with Loutherbourg. This tour, however, was in 1793, and it should be remembered that Cromwell, not yet rehabilitated, was still a villain, cf. BMSat 6006, &c. For the combined magnificence and parsimony cf. BMSat 8117. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 148. Wright and Evans, No. 84. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Reproduced, Angelo, 'Reminiscences', 1904, i. 297 (coloured); Fuchs, p. 254. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-614 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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