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
-
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Gunning,--Miss--(Elizabeth),--1769-1823--Caricatures and cartoons.
Gunning,--Mrs.--(Susannah),--1740?-1800--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Minifie, Margaret--Caricatures and cartoons. - Published / Created
- 1791 March 25
- Copyright Date
- [25 March 1791]
- Publication Place
- [London]
- Publisher
- 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
-
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched at top of image. - Extent
- 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23 x 28 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- still image
- Genre
-
Etchings--England--London--1791.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1791. - Subject (Name)
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Gunning,--Miss--(Elizabeth),--1769-1823--Caricatures and cartoons.
Gunning,--Mrs.--(Susannah),--1740?-1800--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Minifie, Margaret--Caricatures and cartoons.
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.
- Citation
-
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7983
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 376
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 124
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7768615
- Object ID (OID)
- 11859353