- Title:
The Man of Feeling, in Search of Indispensibles: - A Scene at the Little French Milleners
- Date:
- 1800
- Medium:
- Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 1/4 × 14 1/4 inches (26 × 36.2 cm), Image: 9 1/2 × 14 1/8 inches (24.1 × 35.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image: "le Magasin | de Lancasre | pour Embellir | les | Dames Angloise"; lettered below image: "J's Gillray inv't & fec't | The MAN of FEELING, in search of INDISPENSIBLES: - a Scene at the little French Milleners. | Pub'd Feb'y 12th, 1800 by J. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street | NB. A number of displutes having arisen i nthe Beau Monde, respecting the Exact Situation of the Ladies' Indispensibles (or new Invented Pockets.) whether they were placed at the Ancle, or | in a more elegible situation, the above search took place, in order to determine precisely the Longitude of these inestimable conveniences."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.794
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Associated People:
- William V (1748–1806), Prince of Orange
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:43378
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British Museum, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, 11 volumes in 12, British Museum Publications, London, no. 9577, NE55 G7 L63 A52 1978 (YCBA) [YCBA]