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James Gillray Greetings Card – Contemplations upon a Coronet, 1797 (1797)

Original price was: £3.00.Current price is: £1.75.

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Description

A bright and satirical greetings card featuring James Gillray’s Contemplations upon a Coronet, 1797.

On 14 March 1797 the Countess of Derby died, leaving the Earl free to marry Elizabeth
Farren after a seventeen-year courtship. The coronet that Farren contemplates rests on a
cushion with the shape of Derby’s caricatured head. She made her final appearance at
Drury Lane on 8 April as Lady Teazle: having made a career specialising in refined
aristocratic ladies, she now became one.

17.1 x 12cm

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