Les trois magots [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
[1 November 1791]

Copyright Date:

[1 November 1791]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 35 x 36 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7997
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 137
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive acc

Notes:

Title from text in image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Eighteen lines of verse etched below image: To whip a top, to knuckle down at taw ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Figurines -- Mantelpieces -- Pugilism -- Toys: whirligig -- Spurs -- Literature: allusion to George Farquhar's The Beaux Stratagem, iii, 3 -- Barrymore, Richard, 7th Earl, 'Newgate' -- Barrymore, Henry, 8th Earl, 'Cripplegate' -- Barry, Augustus, 'Hellgate' -- Prince of Wales's circle -- Pictures amplifying subject: Prince of Wales'e portrait.
Suckling.
Mounted to 36 x 36 cm.

Abstract:

"Lord Barrymore and his two brothers are represented as figurines on the shelf of a chimney-piece, along which the title is etched. Each stands on a circular pedestal inscribed: (left to right) 'A Hell-gate Blackguard', 'A Newgate Scrub', and 'A Cripplegate Monster', the three brothers being known as Newgate, Hellgate, and Cripplegate. In the centre Barrymore, as Scrub, is seated as in Act iii of Farquhar's play, when in conference with Archer: dressed in livery and wearing an apron, his hands on his knees (cf. BMSat 6221). On the left Augustus Barry, stripped to the waist and wearing boxing-gloves with a high hat, stands in the attitude of a pugilist, which his extreme thinness makes ridiculous. On the right Henry Barry grins and capers, holding a toy whirligig. He wears the fashionable dress of the bloods of the moment: high hat, long tight breeches reaching almost to the ankle, short wrinkled top-boots with enormous spurs. His coat is slipping off his shoulders and fastened by one button (a caricature of the fashion); all have cropped hair, cf. BMSat 8040, &c. Over Barrymore's head is the lower part of a bust-portrait of the Prince of Wales in an oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue.

Associated Names:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817 [Publisher]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Barry, Augustus, 1773-1818
Barrymore, Henry Barry, Earl of, 1770-1823
Barrymore, Richard Barry, Earl of, 1769-1793
Clothing & dress -- England -- 1790-1800
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Harvey, Francis
Riviere & Son

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1791
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1791

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

791.11.01.02+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

7778710

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr07252

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10732656

PID:

digcoll:553679