Pylades & Orestes.

James Gillray

Pylades & Orestes.

London, H. Humphrey April 1^st 1797

Etching

Original hand-colouring

350x250mm

£750

The stout, ugly figure of the Prince of Orange, in profile to the left, shuffles somnolently along the pavement, eyes shut. He wears a blue frock coat and a shaggy, low crowned beaver, and holds the arm of his skinny, hunchbacked secretary Nassalin. The couple are said to have often perambulated along Bond Street in this manner, the Prince sometimes asleep. BM 9065.