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Hannah Humphrey
The go-between, or, Barrow man embarrass'd
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image: 194 x 255 mm; plate mark: 235 x 275 mm; sheet: 259 x 307 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2575
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London : Publish'd Jany. 16th. 1787, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street, [1787]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
A reissue; originally published by George Townly Stubbs, with imprint: "London Pub'd May 16, 1786 by G.T. Stubbs, Peters Court St. Martins Lane."
Summary:
A man wheels a wheelbarrow towards the spectator; his progress is impeded by two ladies who stand one on each side of him facing each other in profile; their enormously projecting breasts touch each other in front of the man's chest. They wear wide-brimmed hats and petticoats extended at the back. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
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