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Mary of Buttermere
Artist: James Gillray (1757 - 1815)
Location: Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum
Date: 1800 - 1802
Materials: 1) pen & ink with pencil & grey wash; 2) hand coloured engraving
Dimensions: 1) 26.7 x 20.3cm; 2) 30.5 x 23.2cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £1,500 (Total: £12,500)
Vendor: Professor Michael Jaye
Review number: 3911 (1993)
Provenance:
Private collection, Germany; private collection, USA.
Description:
Mary of Buttermere was the victim of bigamist James Hatfield, whose case was a sensation. James Gillray was a brilliant political caricaturist, and drawings by him are rare as he usually drew directly onto the engraver's plate. Wordsworth included Mary's story in Book VII of 'The Prelude', contrasting his own fate with hers. One drawing and one engraving.
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