Dido in despair! [graphic] / Js. Gillray inv. & fect.
- Published/Created:
- [London]
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James Street, London
[6 February 1801] - Copyright Date:
- [6 February 1801]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching with engraving and stipple engraving ; sheet 25.2 x 35.8 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Four lines of quoted verse, two on either side of title, etched below image: "Ah, where & ah where, is my gallant sailor gone? "He's gone to fight the Frenchmen, for George upon the throne. "He's gone to fight [the] Frenchmen, t' loose t' other arm & eye. "And left me with the old antiques, to lay me down & cry.
"Dido" is a reference to a character from Virgil's Aeneid.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Bound with (as frontispiece): A new edition considerably enlarged, of Attitudes faithfully copied from nature (London: H. Humphrey, 1807).
Old Print Shop; 1961. - Abstract:
- "A bedroom scene. Lady Hamilton, grotesquely fat, but with traces of beauty in her features, rises from a curtained bed, arms and one leg extended in a burlesqued gesture of despair. She wears a nightgown and lace-trimmed cap. Behind her in the shadowed depths of the bed the night-capped head of her elderly and (?) sleeping husband, rests on the pillow. She looks, weeping, towards an open sash-window through which is seen a fleet sailing towards the horizon. In the window (left) is a cushioned window seat on which (besides a stocking) is an open book: 'Studies of Academic Attitudes taken from the Life'; on one page is a nude woman lying in sensual abandonment. On the right against the curtains of the bed is a dressing-table on which, besides toilet-articles, are a flask of 'Maraschino', a 'Composing Draught', and a pot of 'Rouge à la Naples'. On the carpeted floor (right) are objects from Sir W. Hamilton's collection, with an open book: 'Antiquities of Herculaneum Naples Caprea &c. &c.'; on the right page is a satyr chasing a nymph. They include an oval gem, a figure of a squatting monster, headless, the base inscribed 'Pri[apus]', a laughing bust of 'Messalina', statues of a Venus and a Satyr, coins or medals, one inscribed 'Ovid', another 'Tibertius'. In front of Lady Hamilton are the slippers she has kicked off, and a garter inscribed 'The Hero of the Nile'."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Associated Names:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Artist]
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817 [Publisher] - Topics:
- Antiques
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Bedrooms
Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 1761?-1815
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803
Harvey, Francis
Interiors
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805
Obesity
Riviere & Son
Virgil. [[depicted
Window seats - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Engravings -- England -- London -- 1801
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1801
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1801
Stipple engravings -- England -- London -- 1801
Watermarks (Paper) -- Ruse & Turners - 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:
- 801.02.06.01+
- Orbis Record:
- 8321484
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr10102
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 15813439
- PID:
- digcoll:2782535
