Gillray (James) Uncorking Old Sherry, etching with original hand-colouring

Gillray (James) Uncorking Old Sherry, etching with original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 352 x 249 mm (13 7/8 x 9 3/4 in), trimmed within the platemark, tipped at corners onto yellow-paper support, small pin holes and minor nicks to extremities, all corners slightly trimmed, minor surface dirt, unframed, published by Hannah Humphrey, 1805 Literature: BM Satires 10375 *** Pitt stands before the commons, comprising opposition heads in bottles capped with small bonnets-rouge, holding and uncorking a bottle with Sheridan's head inside.

Estimate:£400

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