Boston Public LibraryJames Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings / English Caricature and Political Satire, 18th and 19th Centuries / British Artists
Push-pin
Item Information
- Title:
- Push-pin
- Title (alt.):
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Pushpin
- Description:
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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 (BM). / Peter Pindar's "little gamesome Piccadilly Duke" occupied in one of those very intellectual games, which were fashionable at the time. The lady with whom he is at play is said to have been a well-known priestess of Venus, usually designated by her customers as "Mother Windsor" (Wright/Evans).
- Artist:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815
- Name on Item:
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Jas. Gillray delt.
- Date:
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April 17, 1797
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Caricatures
Satires (Visual works)
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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James Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Nobility
Games
Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1725-1810
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; plate mark 22 x 29 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z111m179
- Terms of Use:
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No Copyright - United States
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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London :
Published by John Miller, Bridge Street & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Alternative title from Wright/Evans.
BM Satires 9082; Wright/Evans 439
Additional information accompanying item: From the 1824 Gillray collection of copies, etched and published by John Miller and W. Blackwood.
- Notes (acquisition):
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Gift; Louis Black; December 1953
- Notes (date):
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Date from Wright/Evans.
Reproduction. Date indicated is Gillray's original publication date.
- Notes (citation):
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Stephens, Frederic George, George, Mary Dorothy. "Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum." British Museum Press, 1870, London.
Wright, Thomas, R. H. Evans. "Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray." Benjamin Blom, 1968, New York.
- Identifier:
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18_17_000070
- Barcode:
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36666004443442
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