"Three people sit at a round table playing push-pin. The Duke of Queensberry (right) leans on the table, pushing the pin. In his right hand is a double lorgnette over which he leers at his vis-à-vis, a very corpulent woman in a flowered dress who stares through spectacles at the pins. A younger woman, spinsterish and demure, watches the game with down-dropped eyes. Both wear hats. The chairs are decorated with ormolu, and on the back of Queensberry's is his crest (without the coronet): a heart between wings. The floor is carpeted."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Also with the figure of Mother Windsor, procuress., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Imprint from untrimmed impression in Caricatures of Gillray at the Yale Center for British Art L296.32 (Folio A))., Date of publication inferred from John Miller's entry in London Publishers and Printers, by Philip A.H. Brown (London, British Library, 1982)., Plate from: Caricatures of Gillray, London, John Miller, [ca. 1824-1827]., and Reduced copy of a print with the same title etched by Gillray and published by Hannah Humphrey in 1797.
Publisher:
Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
