Gillray (James) The first kiss this ten years! - or - the meeting of Britannia & Citizen François, etching and aquatint with original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 357 x 260 mm (14 x 10 1/4 in), thread margins, minor even toning but mainly to extremities, some residual album leaves in corners verso, unframed, Hannah Humphrey, 1803
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BM Satires 9960
⁂ Satire on Anglo-French relations with a fat good-natured Britannia receiving a big kiss from a lean French military officer, with oval bust portraits of Napoleon and George III above.
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