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The Gipsies   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: John Collet

Print made by: James Caldwall
Published by: John Smith of Cheapside
Published by: Robert Sayer
Title
The Gipsies
Description
English: Satire on gipsies. A village scene, in which an old gipsy woman with a baby on her back, reads the palm of a neatly dressed young woman, evidently just come from the church in the background; another young woman leans on her shoulder and a boy with a toy drum stands at her feet look up curiously at the gipsy; a second boy stands behind. A ragged gipsy man and child sit at the old woman's feet gnawing at bones while a dog, drooling, watches them attentively. Their donkey stands behind the man, a scrawny goose's head hanging from a panier; in the background to left, on the far side of a country road, a gipsy woman breast-feeds her baby while a young boy tends a fire on which a cauldron has been placed. A sailor rides along the road, raising a club to beat his horse; an anxious young woman sits behind the sailor, her arms around his waist. On the right is a thatched cottage from the upper window of which leans an old woman knocking two cats off the roof with a broom; at the door stands a Scotsman reading a copy of the "North Briton No. 45"; in front of the ramshackle fence are two turkeys and a milkpail. 10 November 1770
Etching and engraving
Date 1770
date QS:P571,+1770-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 480 millimetres
Width: 480 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1867,1012.767
Notes

The North Briton, No. 45 was published by John Wilkes on 23 April 1763.

Caldwell exhibited the engraving at the Free Society in 1771.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1867-1012-767
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