- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 June 1795]
- Call Number:
- 795.06.30.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A lady sits in back view before a tall pier-glass, twisting a piece of drapery round her head. Two young women (right) hold up festoons of the immensely long drapery, the end of which trails across the floor and is worried by a small dog, shaved in the French manner. The glass is surmounted by an earl's coronet and decorated by triple ostrich plumes, suggesting that the lady, who wears a loose wrapper, may be Lady Jersey. The mirror is lit by two candles. Through a window (right) is a crescent moon, sinking into clouds. The second attendant wears a hat, suggesting that she is a milliner. Both are dressed in the short-waisted fashion of the day (cf. BMSat 8571). An elaborate bowl of flowers stands on a pedestal or small ornate table. A patterned carpet covers the floor."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: mirrors -- Crowns: earl's coronet -- Claw-foot table -- Furnishings: flower arrangements -- Window curtains -- Emblems: Earls of Jersey ostrich feathers -- Pets: dogs -- Lighting: candle holders on mirror -- Trades: milliners -- Female dress: drapery headdress.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 30th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A lady putting on her cap June 1795. [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 June 1795]
- Call Number:
- 795.06.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A tall handsome lady walks diagonally forwards from left to right, her left hand on the arm of a much shorter companion with a larger head, perhaps a young girl. The latter, though her dress is simple, has a grotesquely high bunch of erect feathers in her turban, and holds a large fan. The tall lady is wearing a fashionable turbine with tall feathers at the front, a high-waisted dress, with voluminous petticoats and a flowing train. Drapery is twisted round her waist and festooned about her skirts. In the background ladies with erect feathers in their hair are freely sketched. An officer in back view leads a lady by the hand, an enormous cocked hat in his left hand."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., One line of quoted text below title: "Delightful task! to teach the young idea how to shoot!", Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: headdress -- Lady Katherine or Lady Elizabeth Manners., and Watermark: J Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 20th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Rutland, Mary Isabella Manners, Duchess of, 1756-1831
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Characters in high life sketch'd at the new rooms, Opera House / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [22 May 1795]
- Call Number:
- 795.05.22.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady sits in an armchair, her head tilted back to the side so that she can see her reflection in the large mirror on the wall behind her. She wears a loose-fitting dress, suggestive of her pregnant state? Her full figure and large breasts are well-defined. She is wearing gloves and a turban adorned with ostrich feathers. She holds a fan in her right hand and long locks of hair escape from her turban. Beneath the chair is a patterned carpet
- Alternative Title:
- Modern elegance
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Probably an earlier state of: Modern elegance: a portrait. Cf. No. 8719 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 22d. 1795 by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady, 1775-1861
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Fashionable elegance [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 March 1795]
- Call Number:
- 795.03.10.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Scales -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Charles II in a powdered wig -- Newspapers: 'Gazette' -- Male dress: spencers -- Sparrow-tailed coats.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 10th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., England, and England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Hair powder, Taxation, Clothing & dress, Fireplaces, Families, Hairdressing, Interiors, Mirrors, Parlors, Rugs, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Leaving off powder, or, A frugal family saving the guinea [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [22 May 1795]
- Call Number:
- 795.05.22.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady sits in an armchair, her head titled back to the side so that she can see her reflection in the large mirror on the wall behind her. She wears a loose high-waisted dress, giving the appearance of pregnancy, her full figure and large breasts are well-defined. She is wearing gloves and a turban adorned with ostrich feathers. Long locks of hair escaped from the turban, and she holds a fan in her right hand. Beneath the chair is a patterned carpet
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom edge., and Manuscript note below image identifies the sitter as Lady Charlotte Cambell.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 22d, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady, 1775-1861
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Modern-elegance a portrait. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 June 1795]
- Call Number:
- 795.06.25.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man walks away from the spectator, slightly to the right, showing a whiskered right cheek. He wears a high round hat with a curved brim, sparrow-tail coat, and spurred top-boots. His shoulders are sprinkled with hair-powder (see BMSat 8190, &c). In his right hand is a riding-switch. He is in shadow. On the extreme right is the arm and left leg of a man in the exact position of his shadow, dressed in the same way."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress, 1795., and Mounted to 47 x 32 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 25th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Hamilton, Douglas Hamilton, Duke of, 1756-1799 and Thornton, Thomas, 1757-1823
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The shadow of a duke [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [22 June 1795]
- Call Number:
- 795.06.22.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Half length portrait, scarcely caricatured, of a woman in profile to the right, smiling. She has a long nose and projecting chin, and wears a muslin cap, her hair hangs down her back with the ends looped beneath its heavy mass. Her neck is much swathed and she wears a fichu over her dress."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: fichu -- Cap.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 22d, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Une femme d'esprit [graphic]