Mrs. Gibbs the notorious street-walker & extorter [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Mrs. Gibbs the notorious street-walker & extorter [graphic].
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created
- [23 September 1799]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publishd. Septr. 23d, 1799, & sold by all [the] book & print sellers in London
- Abstract
-
"Three-quarter length portrait, directed to the right, of a sour-looking and squinting woman, wearing a bonnet and a patterned dress. She holds a book, 'The Four Evangelists'. Beneath the title: 'Swearing at the Old Bailey to Mr J. Beck having Robbed her in Kensington Garden of which charge he was honorably acquitted - multitudes of Witnesses appearing to prove her having made similar Charges against them, in order to extort Money.' On the design: 'Caution to the Unwary! - This Pest of Society is rather of a Tall & Thin form . . . [&c, &c.]'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
"Price 6 d."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides and bottom resulting in minor losses of text in and below the image.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 26.7 x 20.2 cm, on sheet 30.2 x 23.9 cm.
Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 10 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 26 x 19 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. 10
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1799
England > London > 1799
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
- 8201459
- Object ID (OID)
- 11860983
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