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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1781]
- Call Number:
- 781.07.02.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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:
- Title from text at bottom of image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Vestris, Gaëtan, 1729-1808, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance, Geese, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Regardèz moi [graphic].
- Creator:
- Bretherton, Charles, -1783, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs [ca. 1781]
- Call Number:
- 781.00.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Duchess of Norfolk
- Description:
- Title from annotation on Horace Walpole's copy in the New York Public Library, identifying the sitter as Lady Barbara Villiers, Baroness Mansell. British Museum catalogue gives title as: [The Duchess of Norfolk?]., Date from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Mansell, Barbara Villiers, Baroness, d. 1761. and Norfolk, Katharine Howard, Duchess of, d. 1784.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Playing cards, and Hats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Lady Mansel] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, Charles, -1783, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd Novr 1st, 1781.
- Call Number:
- 781.11.01.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Title from British Museum online catalogue.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810,
- Subject (Topic):
- Cooks and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Louis Weltje] [graphic]