197 - Gillray (James) The Nuptial-Bower;-with the Evil-One, peeping at Charms of Eden, from Milton, etching with hand-colouring, on laid paper with indistinct text-based watermark, sheet 307 x 400 mm (12 1/4 x 15 3/4 in), good margins, some toning and surface dirt, unframed, Hannah Humphrey, 1797

Gillray (James) The Nuptial-Bower;-with the Evil-One, peeping at Charms of Eden, from Milton, etching with hand-colouring, on laid paper with indistinct text-based watermark, sheet 307 x 400 mm (12 1/4 x 15 3/4 in), good margins, some toning and surface dirt, unframed, Hannah Humphrey, 1797 Literature: BM Satires 8985 *** Scarce at auction. 'William Pitt, grotesquely thin and much caricatured, leads Eleanor Eden, a conventionally pretty woman, towards a bower (right) covered with a vine bearing many bunches of grapes interspersed with coronets.' [BM]