The injured Count S- [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The injured Count S- [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Injured Count Strathmore
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created
- [1786?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by C. Morgan, Holles Street, Cavendish-Square
- Abstract
-
"Lady Strathmore sits drinking with her servants; she leans back in her chair, a small flagon (indicating gin) in her right hand, a glass in her left; her breasts are bare and are sucked by two cats. A little boy (left) stands beside her chair crying; he says, "I wish I was a Cat my Mama would Love me then". A footman, wearing a nightcap and holding a candle, puts his hand on her arm, saying, "My Lady its time to come to Bed". A number of women-servants are seated at a rectangular table, the most prominent being one whose head and arms have advanced from her body and lean on the table; she holds out a glass to touch that of Lady Strathmore; in her right hand is a decanter; on her lap is a paper: 'Duty of a Ladies Maid, by M. Morgan see Old Baly Chronle'. Four other servants drink in a debauched manner, one holds a broom, another a spit. A man (right) looks round a folding screen, his hand raised in surprise. On the extreme left a man stands with his hands on his hips, spectacles pushed up on his forehead; he looks at a map on the wall of the '[Bowe]s Estate', showing 'Newcastle' and 'Durham', and says, "We'll have it Farmer and nearer". He is either Stoney (afterwards Stoney-Bowes) or some other fortune-hunter. On the wall there is also a picture, 'Messalina'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Date of publication surmised to be either 1786 or ca. May 1788. See British Museum catalogue.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.3 x 39.4 cm, on sheet 28.0 x 42.2 cm.
Mounted on leaf 37a (i.e. verso of leaf 36) of volume 7 of 12. - Provenance
- From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 27.5 x 39.6 cm, on sheet 29.0 x 41.7 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Etchings England London 1786 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of, 1749-1800
- Subjects
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Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of, 1749-1800 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
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.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12482985
- Object ID (OID)
- 11859199