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Print made by James Gillray, 1757–1815, British, A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique, 1801
- Title:
A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique
- Date:
- 1801
- Medium:
- Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper mounted on green card
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 3/8 × 10 11/16 inches (39 × 27.2 cm) and Image: 13 × 10 1/16 inches (33 × 25.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, upper right: "498"; lower center: "Js Gillray invt & Fect Pubd Feby 11th 1801 by H Humphrey 27 St James's Street | A COGNOCENTI contemplating ye Beautieis of ye Antique."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara and Max Wilk, Yale BA 1941
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1995.8
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- animals | antiques | beauty | boots | broken | cane | caricature | carpet | dishes | drinking glasses | goblet | grotesque | hand | hat | humor | man | mummy | old | paintings | parody | pots | relics | satire | sculptures | spurs | statues | table | thoughtful | vases | Vesuvius
- Associated People:
- Marcus Antonius (83 BC–30 BC), Roman politician and general
Claudius (character in Hamlet)
Hamilton, Emma, Lady Hamilton (bap. 1765, d. 1815), social celebrity and artist's model
Bacchus
Cleopatra VII Philopator (late 69 BC–30 BC), last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758–1805), British naval officer
Cupid
Hamilton, Sir William (1730-1803), collector and political official - Access:
- View by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4826
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