Les trois magots [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Les trois magots [graphic].
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1 November 1791]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Abstract
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"Lord Barrymore and his two brothers are represented as figurines on the shelf of a chimney-piece, along which the title is etched. Each stands on a circular pedestal inscribed: (left to right) 'A Hell-gate Blackguard', 'A Newgate Scrub', and 'A Cripplegate Monster', the three brothers being known as Newgate, Hellgate, and Cripplegate. In the centre Barrymore, as Scrub, is seated as in Act iii of Farquhar's play, when in conference with Archer: dressed in livery and wearing an apron, his hands on his knees (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6221). On the left Augustus Barry, stripped to the waist and wearing boxing-gloves with a high hat, stands in the attitude of a pugilist, which his extreme thinness makes ridiculous. On the right Henry Barry grins and capers, holding a toy whirligig. He wears the fashionable dress of the bloods of the moment: high hat, long tight breeches reaching almost to the ankle, short wrinkled top-boots with enormous spurs. His coat is slipping off his shoulders and fastened by one button (a caricature of the fashion); all have cropped hair, cf. British Museum Satires No. 8040, &c. Over Barrymore's head is the lower part of a bust-portrait of the Prince of Wales in an oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title from text in image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Eighteen lines of verse etched below image: To whip a top, to knuckle down at taw ...
Temporary local subject terms: Mantelpieces -- Pugilism -- Toys: whirligig -- Spurs -- Literature: allusion to George Farquhar's The Beaux Stratagem, iii, 3 -- Barrymore, Richard, 7th Earl, 'Newgate' -- Barrymore, Henry, 8th Earl, 'Cripplegate' -- Barry, Augustus, 'Hellgate' -- Prince of Wales's circle -- Pictures amplifying subject: Prince of Wales'e portrait.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.2 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 38.2 x 38.5 cm.
Mounted on leaf 22 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 35 x 36 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
Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- England
- Subject (Name)
-
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Barrymore, Richard Barry, Earl of, 1769-1793
Barrymore, Henry Barry, Earl of, 1770-1823
Barry, Augustus, 1773-1818 - Subject (Topic)
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Clothing & dress
Chimneypieces
Figurines
Pedestals
Boxers (Sports)
Toys - Subjects
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George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
Barrymore, Richard Barry, Earl of, 1769-1793 > Caricatures and cartoons
Barrymore, Henry Barry, Earl of, 1770-1823 > Caricatures and cartoons
Barry, Augustus, 1773-1818 > Caricatures and cartoons
Clothing & dress > England > 1790-1800
Chimneypieces
Figurines
Pedestals
Boxers (Sports)
Toys
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
- Orbis Record
- 7778710
- Object ID (OID)
- 11859371