File:Company-Shocked-Gillray.jpeg

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Summary

Description
English: Company shocked at a lady getting up to ring the bell / B., Esq, del.

SUMMARY: A violent disturbance in a breakfast parlor. A woman stands to ring the bell-pull while the five men at the table react in horror, stumbling and knocking over items on the table as they attempt to stop her. The men are probably suitors of the woman.

MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: London : H. Humphrey, 1805 Nov. 20.

According to Wright & Evans, Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray (1851, OCLC 59510372), p. 473, this is "A widow and her suitors, who seem to have forgot their manners in the intensity of their admiration."
Date
Source Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-8784 (color film copy transparency), uncompressed archival TIFF version (49 MB), level color (pick white point, pick black point), cropped and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5.
Author
James Gillray (1756–1815)  wikidata:Q520806 s:en:Author:James Gillray q:en:James Gillray
 
James Gillray
Alternative names
James Gilray; Gillay; Gillray
Description British caricaturist and engraver
Date of birth/death 13 August 1756 Edit this at Wikidata 1 June 1815 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q520806
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 No known restriction on publication.
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3g08784.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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