Dido in despair! [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Dido in despair! [graphic]
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
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Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher. - Published / Created
- [6 February 1801]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James Street, London
- Abstract
-
"A bedroom scene. Lady Hamilton, grotesquely fat, but with traces of beauty in her features, rises from a curtained bed, arms and one leg extended in a burlesqued gesture of despair. She wears a nightgown and lace-trimmed cap. Behind her in the shadowed depths of the bed the night-capped head of her elderly and (?) sleeping husband, rests on the pillow. She looks, weeping, towards an open sash-window through which is seen a fleet sailing towards the horizon. In the window (left) is a cushioned window seat on which (besides a stocking) is an open book: 'Studies of Academic Attitudes taken from the Life'; on one page is a nude woman lying in sensual abandonment. On the right against the curtains of the bed is a dressing-table on which, besides toilet-articles, are a flask of 'Maraschino', a 'Composing Draught', and a pot of 'Rouge à la Naples'. On the carpeted floor (right) are objects from Sir W. Hamilton's collection, with an open book: 'Antiquities of Herculaneum Naples Caprea &c. &c.'; on the right page is a satyr chasing a nymph. They include an oval gem, a figure of a squatting monster, headless, the base inscribed 'Pri[apus]', a laughing bust of 'Messalina', statues of a Venus and a Satyr, coins or medals, one inscribed 'Ovid', another 'Tibertius'. In front of Lady Hamilton are the slippers she has kicked off, and a garter inscribed 'The Hero of the Nile'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Four lines of quoted verse, two on either side of title, etched below image: "Ah, where & ah where, is my gallant sailor gone? "He's gone to fight the Frenchmen, for George upon the throne. "He's gone to fight [the] Frenchmen, t' loose t' other arm & eye. "And left me with the old antiques, to lay me down & cry.
"Dido" is a reference to a character from Virgil's Aeneid.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Bound with (as frontispiece): A new edition considerably enlarged, of Attitudes faithfully copied from nature (London: H. Humphrey, 1807). - Provenance
- Old Print Shop; 1961.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 25.2 x 35.8 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 801.02.06.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1801
Engravings England London 1801
Stipple engravings England London 1801
Etchings England London 1801
Watermarks (Paper) Ruse & Turners - Material
- etching with engraving and stipple engraving ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Virgil.
Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 1761?-1815
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803 - Subject (Topic)
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Parodies, imitations, etc
Antiques
Bedrooms
Interiors
Obesity
Window seats - Subjects
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Virgil > Parodies, imitations, etc
Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 1761?-1815 > Caricatures and cartoons
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803 > Caricatures and cartoons
Antiques
Bedrooms
Interiors
Obesity
Window seats
England > 1801
England > London > 1801
Ruse & Turners
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
- 8321484
- Object ID (OID)
- 15813439