Lady Godina's rout, or, Peeping-Tom spying out Pope Joan / Js. Gy. d. et f.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Lady Godina's rout, or, Peeping-Tom spying out Pope Joan / Js. Gy. d. et f.
hand colored etching
image: 25.7 x 35.8 cm; sheet: 26.5 x 37 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2931
Published: 
[London] : H. Humphrey, 1796.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Trimmed to within plate mark.

Summary: 

A fashionable crowd, with two card-tables, a round table in the foreground (left) at which four persons play Pope-Joan; the most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left, her loose semi-transparent draperies revealing her person and leaving her breasts almost uncovered. A leering man stands behind her chair, negligently holding candle-snuffers to a candle on the table, in order to peer down her décolletage. A stout lady in back view, sitting on a stool, a little girl, and an elderly man complete the table. On the right is another card-table at which three persons are playing. Standing figures freely sketched form a background, the whole design being dominated by the erect feathers of the ladies, usually springing from a turban,

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