Dividing the spoil!! [graphic] / I. Ck.

Published/Created:

London
Pubd. May 20, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
[20 May 1796]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 40 x 29 cm

Notes:

Title etched between the two images on one sheet.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios lent out for the evening.
Variant wtih artist's name. Cf. No. 8880 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Walter Schatzki; 1961.
Watermark: G R and date 1794 below.

Abstract:

In the image at the top: Four ladies, fashionably dressed, sit round a table dividing the profits of 'the Faro Bank'. On the table are heaps of guineas with cheques or banknotes, a sword, a ribbon and star, a paper: 'Bond 200 . . half Pay . . Faro'. The two central figures seated behind the table are Lady Archer (with an angry expression) and Lady Buckinghamshire facing each other in profile, their breasts much exposed. On the extreme left sits a young and good-looking woman, her chin concealed by a swathing round the neck; she watches the dispute warily, her arms folded. Facing her (right) an older woman reads through a glass a paper inscribed 'Hond Sir please to pay Lady Bilkem one Thousand Pound for your Dutiful Son Dupe'. These two are probably Mrs. Concannon and Mrs. Sturt, the other two fashionable and notorious holders of faro-banks. Lighted candle-sconces decorate the wall. The near edge of the table forms the lower edge of the design. In the image on the bottom, titled "St Giles's: Four prostitutes in a ramshackle room are grouped, much as the four above, round a table on which their night's plunder is spread: seals, watches, &c. They are younger, handsomer, and have pleasanter expressions than the women of fashion; their breasts are similarly exposed, though their dress is ragged.

Variant Titles:

St. James's
St. Giles's

Associated Names:

Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811? [Printmaker]
Fores, S. W. [Publisher]

Topics:

Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
Gambling
Poverty
Prostitutes
Social classes

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1796
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1796
Watermarks (Paper) -- G R.

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:

796.05.20.01+

Orbis Record:

8081218

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09823

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10952934

PID:

digcoll:951247