The Spanish bull fight - or - The Corsican matador in danger.

Caricaturist
Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Browse]
Format
Visual material
Language
No linguistic content
Published/​Created
London : [s.n.], 1808/07/11.
Description
1 item ; print 24 x 33.8 cm. plate 25.3 x 35.2 cm.

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Special Collections - Graphic Arts Collection GA 2006.01512 D West 50/GC108/Box 09/Normal/Titles The Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    • Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
    • Inscribed in plate, above: "The Spanish Bull is so remarkable for spirit, that upper leftss the Matador strikes him dead at, the First Blow, the Bull is sure to destroy him. - Vide Barrett's travels".
    • Provenance: Stamped on verso, "Princeton University // Library // Presented by // Dickson Q. Brown '95".
    • Signed in plate, lower left: "Js. Gillray des & fec.".
    Source acquisition
    Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
    References
    • Grego, p. 357
    • BM 10997
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