File:Notorious Characters No.1 (BM 1851,0901.884).jpg
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[edit]Notorious Characters No.1 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: James Gillray
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Title |
Notorious Characters No.1 |
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Description |
English: A travesty of a half length portrait of S. Ireland: ('Hamilton pinxt S = Ireland fect.'). In both Ireland wears the dress of a Rubens picture, cf. BMSat 7020, and looks over his right shoulder, holding up folds of drapery which hang from the left shoulder. The original is young and handsome, with well-dressed hair, tied and falling on his shoulder. [The B.M. impression is dated in a contemporary hand 'Octr 1785'. Listed in Bromley's 'Catalogue', p. 390.] Gillray follows closely the pose and dress of the original, but the head is that of an older man, with a sly smile; his short curling hair recedes from his forehead. In his hand is a book, 'Ireland Shakspe . . .' Beneath the title: 'Mr Bromley in his Catalogue &c. p. 390. has erroneously put this Portrait into his Seventh Class. - It ought to have appeared in the Tenth. See the Contents of it. p. 449.
Hand-coloured etching |
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Depicted people | Representation of: Samuel Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1797 date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1851,0901.884 |
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Notes |
Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Class VII in Bromley's 'Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits . . .' 1793 is 'Literary Persons'; Class X is 'Phoenomena, Convicts, and persons otherwise remarkable'. Proceedings against 'George Stevens esq., James Gillray and Hannah Humphrey' for a libel were begun by Ireland (but dropped on legal advice), claiming damages of £5,000. B.M. Add. 27,337, ff. 47-51. For tne print, 'a striking likeness', see 'Gent. Mag.', Nov. 1797, p. 931. For the Ireland forgeries see BMSat 8884, &c. Reproduced, Mair, 'The Fourth Forger', 1938, p. 224. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-884 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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