Regardèz moi [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Regardèz moi [graphic].
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley,--Marquess of,--1749-1827--Caricatures and cartoons.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Vestris, Gaëtan,--1729-1808--Caricatures and cartoons. - Copyright Date
- [1781]
- Publication Place
- [London]
- Abstract
-
"Gaetan Vestris (right) giving a dancing lesson to a gigantic goose with a human head and long pigtail queue. They face each other in profile. Vestris stands with his legs together, chest thrown out, his arms curved. "Regardez-moi" was his characteristic admonition. On a stool behind the goose is an open book inscribed "Electrical E. E. L."; on the ground at its feet is another inscribed "The Torpedo. Dedicated to Ld------C------. My Lord, I take the Liberty------ The greatness of whose Parts are known. . ." . This indicates that the goose is Lord Cholmondeley (1749-1827), "The Torpedo, a Poem to the Electrical Eel addressed to Mr John Hunter Surgeon" and "Dedicated to . . . Lord Cholmondeley," 4th ed. 1777, was a coarse and scurrilous poem, three lines of which are, "What tho' Lord Ch--lm--d--ly may conceal A most enormous length of Eel Admir'd for Size and bone:"In the wall which forms the background are two sash-windows and a door (left) round which a grinning youth, probably a servant, is looking. On the wall are half length portraits: three in ovals of elderly ladies in profile, one of a clergyman, full-face, wearing a biretta, his left hand on a book. There is also a picture of Fox, with a fox's head, seated opposite Cholmondeley; they are throwing dice. Fox appears satisfied, the other clenches his fist and exclaims in anger. A devil is climbing on the top of the frame and holds out a claw to grab the head of Fox. On the picture are the words "A Nick by God". Like Fox, see BMSat 5972, Cholmondeley held a faro bank at Brooks's. G.E.C., 'Complete Peerage'."-- British Museum online catalogue.
- Description
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Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text at bottom of image. - Extent
- 1 print : etching with aquatint, hand-colored ; sheet 29 x 38 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- still image
- Genre
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Etchings--England--1781.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1781. - Subject (Name)
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley,--Marquess of,--1749-1827--Caricatures and cartoons.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Vestris, Gaëtan,--1729-1808--Caricatures and cartoons. - Subject (Topic)
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Clothing & dress--England--1780-1790.
Dance.
Geese.
Interiors--England--18th century.
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
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Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5911
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 44
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 6738106
- Object ID (OID)
- 11859172