A Pair Of Polished Gentlemen (G. 9755)

细节

James Gillray (1756-1815)
A Pair Of Polished Gentlemen (G. 9755)
etching with hand colouring, 1801, published by H. Humphrey, London
P. 355 x 255 mm., S. 468 x 352 mm.

注意事项

This lot is offered without reserve. No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

'Two heads emerge from the highly-polished boots of their respective owners, which face each other. They are finished portraits of Skeffington and Montagu Mathew, inseparables. Skeffington's boot is a tessled Hessian; its pointed toe rests on the foot of Mathew's spurred top-boot...Skeffington's dark hair is short, falling over his forehead; he has a large whisker. Mathew's fair hair is long and powdered and tied by a ribbon at the tips; he has a small whisker. Round the two boots are grouped blacking materials..the excellence of the portraits is noted, with the mania of the pair for strolling up and down St. James's Street in highly polished boots.' (M. D. George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, Vol. VIII, p. 39)