The devil to pay the wife metamorphos'd, or, Neptune reposing after fording the Jordan. [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The devil to pay the wife metamorphos'd, or, Neptune reposing after fording the Jordan. [graphic]
- Alternative Title
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Wife metamorphos'd
Wife metamorphosed
Neptune reposing after fording the Jordan - Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, printmaker.
- Published / Created
- [24 October 1791]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. Octr. 24th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Abstract
-
"A large bed, its head surmounted with the Royal Arms (sketchily burlesqued), and with loosely draped curtains, extends almost across the design. In it the Duke of Clarence lies asleep, Mrs. Jordan sits up with a rapt air, saying, "What pleasant Dreams I have "had To-night! methought I was in Paradise, upon a bed of Violets & Roses, "and the sweetest Husband by my side! . . ." [&c. &c] a quotation from Coffey's play 'The Devil to pay: or, the Wives metamorphosed'. Nell Jobson the cobbler's wife finds herself (temporarily) in the place of Sir John's lady. See Baker, 'Biog. Dram.', 1812, ii. 161. On a chair (left) are the Duke's naval coat and a pair of breeches; on a stool (right) a petticoat and pair of stays. Under the bed is a chamber-pot inscribed 'Public Jord[an] open to all Parties'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Eleven lines of quoted verse, in three columns, etched below image: "Ten thousand transports wait, to crown my happy state ..."
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedrooms -- Furniture: royal beds -- Chairs -- Stools -- Female costume: corset -- Naval uniforms: Duke of Clarence's uniform -- Sleeping -- Expressions of speech: jordan -- Allusion to Richard Ford, ca 1759-1806, Mrs. Jordan's husband -- Literature: quotation from Charles Coffey's (d. 1745) The Devil To Pay, Or, The Wives Metamorphosed -- Chamber pots.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 28.0 x 38.9 cm.
Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 8 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 : sheet 25.1 x 35.1 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. 8
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman
Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816 - Subjects
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William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 > Caricatures and cartoons
Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
J. Whatman
England > 1791
England > London > 1791
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
- Catalog Record
- 7778483
- Object ID (OID)
- 11859369
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