- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker, artist.
- Published / Created:
- 1802 February 15
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "An enormously fat lady flings up arms, legs, and tea-cup in terror, as her flimsy gown catches fire from a red-hot poker falling from the grate (left). She, a stiff military officer, and a young woman sit at a round tea-table. The man sits paralysed, alarmed and helpless, spilling his tea; the girl has added to the calamity by knocking over the tea-table so that urn and tea-pot spill their scalding contents, and crockery slides towards the floor. A loutish footman enters (right) but has stopped dead, dropping a dish of muffins. A frightened cat scampers from the hearth-rug. Over the chimney-piece is a picture of Vesuvius in eruption. The woman is a monstrous creature with bare arms and elaborately dressed hair (or wig), a patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Text following title: Dedicated to the serious attention of the fashionable ladies of Great Britain. and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats., Clothing & dress--England--1800-1810., Parlors., Tea tables (Tables), and Tea.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Advantages of wearing muslin dresses! [graphic] / Js. Gillray inv. & ft.
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1795 March 10
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A domestic interior. A fat and ugly citizen, wearing old-fashioned dress with a small unpowdered wig, stands on the hearth-rug (right), his back to the fire; he is meditatively reading the 'Gazette', headed: 'New Taxes', and 'Bankru[pts]', his left hand plunged in his breeches pocket. Behind him on the chimney-piece is a pair of scales for weighing guineas (see BMSat 5128). His wife, bald-headed, ugly, and stout, leans back in an arm-chair, her hands raised in protest at an unpowdered wig which a grotesquely thin and ragged French hairdresser (left) proffers obsequiously. A fashionably dressed young man with cropped hair looks with imbecile surprise at his reflection in an oval mirror over the chimney-piece. His mouth is half-covered by his swathed neckcloth, he wears a short spencer (see BMSat 8192) over a sparrow-tail coat, and half-boots. A young woman with over-dressed but unpowdered (red) hair looks with dismay at her reflection in a mirror which she has snatched from the wall. On the wall is an oval bust portrait of 'Charles 2d', his tiny head framed in an immense powdered wig."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- Frugal family saving the guinea
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress--England--1790-1800., Families., Fireplaces., Hair powder--Taxation--Great Britain., Hairdressing--England., Interiors., Mirrors., Parlors., Rugs., and Wigs.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Leaving off powder, or, A frugal family saving the guinea [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1796 February 15
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 9
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A fashionably dressed woman sits (left) in profile, in an upright chair, while a carriage waits for her as seen through the window of the well-appointed sitting room. Her loose dress, high to the neck, has two embroidered slits to reveal the breasts. A pretty, buxom nurse holds out an infant, who eagerly sucks the breast thus conveniently laid bare. She wears a turban with two erect feathers, and short sleeves; her gloved right hand holds a closed fan. On the wall behind her is a large picture, 'Maternal Love': a seated woman suckles an infant. Through a high sash-window is seen a corner of the waiting coach, a footman holding open the door, a fat coachman on the box. The coach, hammer-cloth, and the lady's chair are decorated with a baron's coronet. A patterned carpet covers the floor.
- Alternative Title:
- Convenience of modern dress
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Subject (Topic):
- Breast feeding., Carriages & coaches., Clothing & dress--1790-1800., Coach drivers. , Hats. , Infants., Interiors., Jewelry., Mothers., Parlors., Rugs., and Servants.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The fashionable mamma, or, The convenience of modern dress [graphic] : vide the pocket hole, &c. / Js. Gy. des. et fect.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1806 November 1
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A 'cit', ugly and elderly, sits full face at right angles to the fire (right). He has been suddenly awakened by two squalling cats behind him (left) and registers surprise and terror, with staring eyes and gaping, distorted mouth. Both hands are raised, and he has flung back the bandanna which covered his face. The room suggests prosperity: carved marble chimney-piece surmounted by mirror or picture, carpet, hearth-rug, low-backed arm-chair of modern shape."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Companion print to: "Fast-asleep.", Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats., Clothing & dress--England--1800-1810., and Parlors.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Wide-awake [graphic].