Billingsgate eloquence [graphic] / A.S. inv.

Creator:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[6 January 1795]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 12.3 x 8.0 cm, on sheet 14 x 10 cm

Notes:

Title etched above image.
By Gillray using pseudonym 'A.S.' See British Museum catalogue.
One of a set of eight satirical portraits, each issued separately.
Three lines of text below image: What do you know, you B-? Every one knows I am a - & a -, and setting that aside who can say black to my eye?

Abstract:

"A lean and elderly virago (three-quarter length) with straggling hair, wearing a handkerchief which scarcely covers her breast, stands in profile to the left, glaring fiercely. Her arms are bare to the elbow; she holds her thumb and second finger together, her left hand is on her hip. Etched below her are her words: "What do you know, you B-? -every one knows I am a - & a -, and setting that aside who can say black to my eye?" Her profile is that of Lady Cecilia Johnston as caricatured by Gillray. She had a bitter tongue ..."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia,--Lady,--1727-1817--Caricatures and cartoons.
Riviere & Son Binding.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1795.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1795.
Watermarks (Paper)--J Whatman.--CtY-LW

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

795.01.06.01.1

Orbis Record:

8033087

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr03029

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8604

OID:

15813372

PID:

digcoll:2782467