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Questions & commands, or The mistaken road to He-r-f-rd : a Sunday evenings amusement J-s-s Colle. Cambe.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

Questions & commands, or The mistaken road to He-r-f-rd : a Sunday evenings amusement J-s-s Colle. Cambe.

Published

[London] : Pubd. Feby. 11th, 1788 by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1788]

etching
image: 219 x 336 mm; plate mark: 248 x 350 mm; sheet: 258 x 359 mm
Peel 2673
Notes
By James Gillray.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows a party of ladies, undergraduates, and clergymen at the Master's Lodge, Jesus College, Cambridge. An elderly parson, variously identified as John Butler or Dr. Richard Beadon, grovels on his hands and knees, putting his head under the petticoats of the Duchess of Gloucester who sits with her hands raised in surprise. He acts at the direction of Prince William of Gloucester, who stands at right with a spaniel licking his feet. A stout parson seated behind him on the extreme left scowls and clenches his fist at the scene. The Duchess sits between an undergraduate and a stout parson who holds up his hands in astonishment. On the extreme left is a small round table on which are two candles and playing-cards.

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints