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Betty canning revived: --or--a peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires, & the Gypsey family

Description

Abstract:
Hand-colored etched caricature (by and after Gillray), published March 25th, 1791; General Gunning, dressed as an old gypsy women but in uniform coat, sitting at table and sealing letters, facing his daughter, Miss Gunning who holds a pack of playing cards to her lips, the Devil rising up through floor, 2 women working and plotting at hearthside at right including Mrs. Gunning.
Notes:
Oblong medium folio; plate mark, margins intact; yellowed; upper left corner rippled.
N.Y., Walter Schatzki, 1964.

Access Conditions

Rights
No Copyright - United States
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

Gillray, James, "Betty canning revived: --or--a peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires, & the Gypsey family" (1791). Digital Transgender Archive, Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:234126/

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  • Digital Transgender Archive

    This collection represents Brown University Library’s digital materials made available to the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA). The DTA collects materials about self-identified trans people, transsexuality, genders outside of western binaries, and a diverse range of gender nonconforming identities, practices, and …
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  • Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection

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