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.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership. - Published / Created
- 1799 September 23
- Copyright Date
- [23 September 1799]
- Publication Place
- [London]
- Abstract
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"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
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"Price 6 d."
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides and bottom resulting in minor losses of text in and below the image.
Title etched below image. - Extent
- 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26 x 19 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. 10
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
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. 9443
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 485
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 266
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8201459
- Object ID (OID)
- 11860983