Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique, 1801
- Title:
- A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique
- Date:
- 1801
- Materials & Techniques:
- 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), 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:
- Cupid
Bacchus
Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758–1805), British naval officer
Marcus Antonius (83 BC–30 BC), Roman politician and general
Hamilton, Emma, Lady Hamilton (bap. 1765, d. 1815), social celebrity and artist's model
Claudius (character in Hamlet)
Cleopatra VII Philopator (late 69 BC–30 BC), last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
Hamilton, Sir William (1730–1803), collector and political official - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4826
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