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A man of importance   (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 man of importance
Description
English: Lord Moira, rigid and impassive, stands in profile to the left, right hand on his tasselled stick, left hand on hip, wearing quasi-military dress with looped cocked hat and high boots. Clouds, so coloured as to suggest a distant conflagration, and a low horizon, curved as if to indicate the edge of the globe, form a background. Beneath the design:



'"Ne'er may his Whiskers loose their hue,
" Chang'd (like Moll Coggin's tail) to blue!
"But still -
"New Grace adorn his figure;
"More stiff his boots, more black his stock,
"His hat assume a prouder cock,
"Like Pistol's, (would 'twere bigger!)
Vide Anti Jacobin.' 16 May 1799


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: Francis Rawdon Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira
Date 1799
date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 362 millimetres
Width: 260 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.12524
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) An adaptation of lines from the 'Ode to Lord Moira' by Ellis, see BMSat 9184; his self-importance appeared in his letter proposing a third-party Ministry. The pencil sketch (half length) for this is in the Print Room. The notes are: 'Green coat, Gd [gold] button & loop, Leather breeches, Military boots, stick with tassels'. The coat is green in the impression described. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 263. Wright and Evans, No. 239. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.

For a likely preparatory sketch, see 1851,0901.1381.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-12524
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