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A dash up St James's Street.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
A dash up St James's Street.
Description
English: An officer walks, on a broad pavement, away from the spectator, his head slightly turned to the left, showing his profile. He wears Light Horse uniform, a plumed helmet, short tunic, sash, and long sabre. The toes of his tasselled boots terminate in spikes. He uses a walking-stick. 6 December 1797
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: Lieutenant colonel Francis Cunynghame
Date 1797
date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 250 millimetres
Width: 164 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1851,0901.887
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Identified (1830, &c.) as Captain Cunningham of the Coldstream, who lost his lower jaw in action. He was a nephew of Mrs. Wortley, wounded in Holland in 1799. See Bagot, 'Canning and his Friends', 1909, i. 125. He is given in the 'Army List' (1800) as Captain and Lt.-Col. Francis Cunynghame.

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 232. Wright and Evans, No. 475. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-887
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