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"The Works
of James Gillray
from the
Original Plates
with the
Addition of Many
Subjects Not
Before Collected"
(1847)
published by
Henry G. Bohn, London
written by
Charles Whiting
Copperplate
Engravings
Full Sheet Size:
approx. 19 x 24¾ inches
Half Sheet Size:
approx. 9½ x 12¼ inches
(trimmed from full sheet)
Image Size:
varies from
engraving to
engraving
(note: most, but
not all, plates
have engravings on
both sides of
the sheet, as
published by Bohn.)
| (click thumbnails for enlarged view of entire sheet, click on underlined plate names below for a closer look at each individual plate) |
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|---|---|
 Plates 557-560 (Side 1) "Fine Bracing Weather" "Windy Weather" "Very Slippy Weather" "Maecenas in Pursuit of the Fine Arts" |
 Plates 561-564 (Side 2) "Fast Asleep" "Wide Awake" "A View of Newmarket Heath" "An Old Encore at the Opera" |
| Condition issues: there is a faintish fox mark just above and to the right of the head in the "Fast Asleep" plate; light foxing in lower margin and typical browning around edges of sheet. | |
$500 | |
| Gillray's "Political Series" Plates 1-366 | |
| Gillray's "Miscellaneous Series" Plates 367-582 | |
| Gillray's "Suppressed Series" | |
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