Fortune-Hunting.

James Gillray

Fortune-Hunting.

London, H Humphrey, Nov 20^th 1804

Etching

Original hand colouring

260 x 380 mm

£680

dismounted under an oak-tree to have his fortune told by a ragged old gipsy woman, who reads his hand. He listens, surprised and delighted, while another gipsy, kneeling beside him, with a child on her shoulders, picks his Pocket. Behind (l.) stands a groom in livery, gaping at the fortune told him by a pretty girl. Behind him a boy leans from a tree to rifle the portmanteau on his horse. The scene is the edge of a wood; in the distance two huntsmen are galloping