"Portrait of Mary Squires, whole length, standing to right, leaning on a short stick, wearing hat, cape, apron; after Richard Edgcumbe."
Alternative Title:
Elizabeth Squires the Gypsy who stripped Elizabeth Canning at Enfield Wash
Description:
Title from item. and Earlier state, with different name in the title and different description. Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits ... in the British Museum / Freeman O'Donoghue, v. 4, p. 170.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773. and Squires, Mary, -1762,
An old woman with coarse and heavy features, leans on a walking stick, facing right. She wears an apron over her skirt and a short cape; a wide straw hat is tied under her chin
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date extrapolated from that of the original announced in the Gentleman's magazine, March 1753, p. 150., and Plate numbered '88' in upper right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773 and Squires, Mary, -1762,
"Satire on the Canning Affair; Crisp Gascoyne and Mary Squires, "the old gypsy", carried in triumph by four old gypsies carrying broomsticks and wearing pointed hats."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Four lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: Behold the man who thought it no disgrace to save the sovereign of the Lapland race ..., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below., and Mounted to 36 x 42 cm.
A scene in a room: Justice Henry Fielding stans in a circle drawn on the floor, the scales of 'Astrea' in his pocket, his hand supported on the sword of Justice. Also in the circle as if to protect them from witchcraft are the Lord Mayor Sir Crisp Gascoyne, his state collar round his neck, and "Dr." John Hill, the clyster-pipe of 'Galen' in his pocket; the latter points to the gypsy Mary Squires whose cause he advocated. Fielding points to Elizabeth Canning with an attendent(?) behind, whose story he eagerly defended. Two pictures hanging on the wall amplify the subject of the print: on the left, a view of the Mansion House, London, then recently erected; and on the right, a view of the Old College of Physicians, comprising a mortar, a dried and stuffed skin of a crocodile, a human skeleton, and a stuffed ostrich. Between the pictures hangs the regalia of the City of London. Centered on the ground is a bottle labelled 'Another bottle' alluding to the 'Bottle-Conjurer' (See British Museum satire 'The magician' no 3022).
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Pr. 6d"--Lower right below verses., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: When one head has a cause in hand, A cause it cannot understand; Auxilliarys must be good, To make the matter understood: Three conj'rers sure must find ye out, Which, one, might ever hold in doubt., and Mounted to 35 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and British.
Subject (Name):
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780, Hill, John, 1714?-1775, Gascoyne, Crisp, Sir, 1700-1761, Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773, and Squires, Mary, -1762
Subject (Topic):
Romani, Fraud, Interiors, Criminals, Physicians, British, Government officials, and Magicians
