Leaving off powder, or, A frugal family saving the guinea [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
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Description
- Title
- Leaving off powder, or, A frugal family saving the guinea [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
- Alternative Title
- Frugal family saving the guinea
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher. - Published / Created
- 1795 March 10
- Copyright Date
- [10 March 1795]
- Publication Place
- [London]
- Publisher
- H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
- 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.
- Description
- Title etched below image.
- Extent
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 36 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- still image
- Genre
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Etchings--England--London--1795.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1795. - Subject (Name)
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher. - Subject (Topic)
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Clothing & dress--England--1790-1800.
Families.
Fireplaces.
Hair powder--Taxation--Great Britain.
Hairdressing--England.
Interiors.
Mirrors.
Parlors.
Rugs.
Wigs.
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
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Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8629
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 117
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 187
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8038326
- Object ID (OID)
- 11859416