Enter Cowslip with a bowl of cream vide Brandenburg Theatricals / [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Enter Cowslip with a bowl of cream vide Brandenburg Theatricals / [graphic]
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [13 June 1795]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. June 13th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
- Abstract
-
"An enormously fat lady stands in profile to the left, holding a bowl (resembling a punch-bowl), her left hand on her hip, holding up the frilled apron which drapes her quilted petticoat. She wears ringlets with a small ribbon-trimmed straw hat poised on the side of her head. Her girth is accentuated by her quasi-peasant costume, with laced bodice, and flowered over-dress looped up in festoons, giving her a globular contour. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Four lines of quoted verse in two columns below title: "As a cedar tall & slender; "sweet Cowslip's grace "is her nom'tive case, "and she's of the feminine gender."
One line of quoted text within lower border of image: "Ay, here's the masculine to the feminine gender."
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Dishes: bowls -- Female costume: peasant's dress -- Obesity -- Literature: quotes from John O'Keefe's Agreeable Surprise -- Theater: private performances.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 34.7 x 24.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 69 of volume 8 of 12. - Provenance
- From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 35 x 34.6 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
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Etchings England London 1795 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
- Subjects
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Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1795
England > London > 1795
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
- Catalog Record
- 8044623
- Object ID (OID)
- 11859422
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