Push-pin._(BM_1851,0901.860).jpg
Summary
Push-pin.
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| Artist |
Print made by: James Gillray
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| Title |
Push-pin.
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| Description |
English:
Three people sit at a round table playing push-pin. The Duke of Queensberry (right) leans on the table, pushing the pin. In his right hand is a double lorgnette over which he leers at his vis-à-vis, a very corpulent woman in a flowered dress who stares through spectacles at the pins. A younger woman, spinsterish and demure, watches the game with down-dropped eyes. Both wear hats. The chairs are decorated with ormolu, and on the back of Queensberry's is his crest (without the coronet): a heart between wings. The floor is carpeted. 17 April 1797
Hand-coloured etching |
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| Depicted people | Associated with: William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1797 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Collection |
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| Current location |
Prints and Drawings
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| Accession number |
1851,0901.860
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) The fat woman is identified by Wright and Evans as Mother Windsor, the bawd, see vol. vi.[ In 1830 it was suggested that she was the Duchess of Gordon. She has no resemblance to prints of the Duchess.] An imitation, 'R------L Push-Pin', was published by Fores, 20 Mar. 1823. The three are George IV, Lady Conyngham, and her daughter. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 229 (small copy). Wright and Evans, No. 439. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Reproduced, Chancellor, 'Lives of the Rakes', 1925, v, frontispiece. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-860 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Permission
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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