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1. Lady Godina's rout, or, Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan vide fashionable modesty / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 March 1796]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 9
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A fashionable crowd, with two card-tables, a round table in the foreground (left) at which four persons play Pope-Joan; the most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left, her loose semi-transparent draperies revealing her person and leaving her breasts almost uncovered. A leering man stands behind her chair, negligently holding candle-snuffers to a candle on the table, in order to peer down her décolletage. A stout lady in back view, sitting on a stool (identified as Lady Buckinghamshire, but (?) Duchess of Gordon), a little girl, and an elderly man (identified as Dr. Sneyd) complete the table. On the right is another card-table at which three persons are playing. Standing figures freely sketched form a background, the whole design being dominated by the erect feathers of the ladies, usually springing from a turban."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.2 x 36.2 cm, on sheet 29.1 x 39.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 7 of volume 9 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816 and Bedford, Georgina Gordon, Duchess of, 1781-1853
- Subject (Topic):
- Card games, Clothing & dress, Gambling, Headdresses, Lust, Obesity, Tables, and Upper classes
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lady Godina's rout, or, Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan vide fashionable modesty / [graphic]
2. The loss of the faro-bank, or, The rook's pigeon'd [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 February 1797]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 9
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The fat and florid Lady Buckinghamshire, seated at the head of her faro-table, throws up her arms in dismay, turning towards her husband, who enters through a door (left), saying, "The Bank's stole! - we're ruin'd my Lady! - but I'll run to Bow Street & fix the Saddle upon the right horse, my Lady!" She exclaims: "The Bank stole, my Lord? - why I secur'd it in the Housekeepers-room myself! - this comes of admitting Jacobins into the house! - Ah! the Cheats! Seven Hundred gone smack; - without a single Cock of the Cards!" She fills the centre of the design, and is much larger than her husband. Her guests are crowded together on the right. A pretty young woman, Mrs. Concannon, seated on her left, clasps her hands, exclaiming, "Bank stole! - why I had a Gold snuffbox stole last night from my Table in Grafton Street." Lady Archer, on the extreme right, on the nearer side of the table, turns a corvine and angry profile towards Lord Buckinghamshire, saying, "Stole! - bless me why a Lady had her Pocket pick'd at my House last Monday." Opposite her sits Fox, wearing a hat and putting his hand over his mouth, saying, "Zounds! I hope they dont Smoke me." Sheridan looks over his shoulder, saying, "nor me". Behind Fox, Hanger stands in profile to the left, wearing a hat and holding his bludgeon; he says: "O! if they come to the Mount, if I don't tip them Shelalee" (see BMSat 8889). ... The door (left) resembles that of a strongroom, with two heavy locks and three bolts."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Rook's pigeon'd and Rook's pigeoned
- Description:
- Title etched below image., One line of quoted text following title: "When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war!", Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Literature: Quotation from Nathaniel Lee's The Rival Queens, iv. ii., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.6 x 35.8 cm, on sheet 27.9 x 39.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 34 of volume 9 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby 2d, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hobart, Robert, Earl of Buckinghamshire, 1760-1816, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
- Subject (Topic):
- Jacobins, Card games, Floor coverings, Gambling, Robberies, and Tables
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The loss of the faro-bank, or, The rook's pigeon'd [graphic]
