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The injured count,,--S / J.S. fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

The injured count,,--S / J.S. fect.

[London] : Pubd. by C. Morgan, Holles Street Cavendish-Square, [1786?]
soft ground etching, hand colored
image: 260 x 385 mm; plate mark: 275 x 399 mm; sheet: 295 x 424 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.184
Notes
By James Gillray; signed by Gillray with the initials of James Sayers.
Imprint is probably fictitious. Cf. George.
Library's copy torn and repaired; plate mark not clearly visible.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows Lady Strathmore drinking with her servants; she leans back in her chair, a small flagon in her right hand, a glass in her left; her breasts are bare and are sucked by two cats. A little boy (John Strathmore) stands beside her chair crying; he says, "I wish I was a Cat my Mama would Love me then". A footman, wearing a nightcap and holding a candle, puts his hand on her arm, saying, "My Lady its time to come to Bed". A number of women-servants are seated at a rectangular table, the most prominent being one whose head and arms have advanced from her body and lean on the table; she holds out a glass to touch that of Lady Strathmore; in her right hand is a decanter; on her lap is a paper: 'Duty of a Ladies Maid, by M. Morgan see Old Baly Chronle'. A man observes them from behind a folding screen at right. On the extreme left a man examines a map on the wall of the '[Bowe]s Estate', and says, "We'll have it Farmer and nearer". He is either Stoney (afterwards Stoney-Bowes) or some other fortune-hunter. On the wall also hangs a bawdy picture titled 'Messalina'.

Associated names
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, associated name.
Morgan, C., publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints