Fortune-hunting

Title:: Fortune-hunting
Title (alt.):: Fortune hunting
Description:: A fat elderly man in a hunting-cap has dismounted under an oak tree to have his fortune told by a ragged old gypsy woman, who reads his hand. He listens, surprised and delighted, while another gypsy, kneeling beside him, with a child on her shoulders, picks his pocket. Behind (l.) stands a groom in livery, gaping at the fortune told him by a pretty girl. Behind him a boy leans from a tree to rifle the portmanteau on his horse. The scene is the edge of a wood. In the distance two huntsmen are galloping (BM).
Artist:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815
Name on Item:: B. [North] Esq. del.
Date:: November 20, 1804
Format:: Prints
Genre:: Etchings
Caricatures
Satires (Visual works)
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: James Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:: Nomads
Hunters
Fortune telling
Extent:: 1 print : hand-colored etching ; plate mark 26 x 39 cm
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z111j39x
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.

Publisher:: No. 27 St. James Street London : Publish'd by H. Humphrey
Language:: English
Notes:: Title from item.
Alternative title from Wright/Evans.
BM Satires 10301; Wright/Evans 531
Additional information accompanying item: One of the sketches by the amateur Brownlow North.
Notes (acquisition):: Gift; Louis Black; December 1953
Notes (date):: Date from item.
Notes (citation):: Stephens, Frederic George, George, Mary Dorothy. "Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum." British Museum Press, 1870, London.
Wright, Thomas, R. H. Evans. "Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray." Benjamin Blom, 1968, New York.
Identifier:: 18_17_000019
Barcode:: 36666003786908

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