Margaret's ghost" [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Margaret's ghost" [graphic].
- Alternative Title
- What's the matter Auntee-Peg, what makes you put on such a long face?"
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [25 March 1791]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. March 25th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Abstract
-
"The interior of a bedroom, with Miss Gunning in bed (left), facing the spectator; a stout woman, her mother, holds her arm; both look round in alarm at a much-caricatured creature, Miss Minifie, who rushes towards them (right) from an open door, arms outstretched, gaping with staring eyeballs. Mrs. Gunning raises a leg in her surprise, breaking a bottle of 'Brandy' which with a glass had been concealed under her petticoats. Beneath the design is etched: 'What's the matter Auntee-Peg, what makes you put on such a long Face?"' In the upper and lower margins is the inscription: 'I was sitting by the Bedside of my smiling-injured-innocent-Lambkin, & holding one of the sweet tender hands of my amiable-gentle-dovelike-Cherub, when her Aunt came into the Room, with a face paler than Ashes, - "What is the matter, Auntee Peg" - says my dear-chaste-adorable-kind-benificent-enchanting-heart-feeling-benificent-paragon of Goodness \ She broke upon us the dishonorable-infamous-false-accusations, & the cruel most cruel messages that accompanied them, at that moment a Vow issued from my torn, my rent, my wounded, my agonizing, my suffering Heart, & my dear-divine-glorious-Arch angelic-Angel, said &c &c.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched at top of image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedrooms -- Furniture: side tables -- Beds -- Glass: wine bottles -- Alcohol: brandy -- Allusion to the Gunning scandal -- Literature: burlesque of Mrs. Gunning's A Letter ... to the Duke of Argyll.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below. - Provenance
- Old Print Shop ; 1961.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 23 x 28 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 791.03.25.18
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Gunning, Miss 1769-1823 (Elizabeth),
Gunning, Mrs. 1740?-1800 (Susannah),
Minifie, Margaret - Subjects
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Gunning, Miss (Elizabeth), 1769-1823 > Caricatures and cartoons
Gunning, Mrs. (Susannah), 1740?-1800 > Caricatures and cartoons
Minifie, Margaret > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1791
England > London > 1791
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7768615
- Object ID (OID)
- 10732550