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1. Leaving off powder, or, A frugal family saving the guinea [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
- 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.
2. Les plaisir [sic] du mènage [graphic] / Agnes T-n.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1781 August 1
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A domestic interior. In the upper margin is engraved, "Give me the sweet delight of Love - a Catch", and the design illustrates the lines of the catch: "A smoky house, a failing trade, Six squalling brats, and a scolding jade." A man (full-face) stands disconsolately, his hands clasped while his virago of a wife (left) threatens him with her fist. One small child pulls his coat and points to a little brother kicking on the floor, while a rather older girl weeps with her pinafore to her eyes, and another boy blows a trumpet. This group is on the right. On the left one child clutches another by the hair. The man's toes protrude through one of his shoes, he is without breeches, and these hang from a nail on the wall (right) next his wife's hat. A parroquet sits screeching on the outside of its cage. The plaster has fallen from the wall in patches, showing bricks. A smoky fire burns in the grate (left); on the chimney-piece are tea-things."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- Give me the sweet delight of love : a catch, Plaisir du mènage, and Plaisirs du mènage
- Description:
- Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., CtY-LW, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and 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):
- Children., Clothing & dress--England--1780-1790., Couples. , Domestic life., and Families.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Les plaisir [sic] du mènage [graphic] / Agnes T-n.