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Farmer Giles & his wife shewing off their daughter Betty to their neighbours, on her return from school / drawn by an amateur - etch'd by Js. Gillray.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

Farmer Giles & his wife shewing off their daughter Betty to their neighbours, on her return from school / drawn by an amateur - etch'd by Js. Gillray.

London : Publish'd January 1st 1809 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street, [1809]
etching, hand colored
image: 290 x 456 mm; trimmed sheet: 309 x 465 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.354
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows a rich farmer's parlour or drawing-room where "Betty", wearing a high-waisted dress with short sleeves, sits playing and singing at a square piano. The farmer and his wife stand by the piano while a younger girl stands by the piano and sings with a pained expression. Three elderly ladies, one of whom has fallen asleep, sit at a card-table, on which are spread drawings or embroidery by 'B. Giles'. A son of the house sits with his back to the windows, in profile to the left, his hands folded, ill at ease in frilled shirt, and powdered hair. A small foot-boy enters from the right with a decanter and glasses on a salver and a cake-basket on his arm, the cakes falling out. A spaniel sits dejectedly in the foreground.

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
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