High-change in Bond Street, ou, La politesse du grande monde [graphic] / Js. Gy. d. et fect.

Creator:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London]
H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
1796 March 27

Copyright Date:

[27 March 1796]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 36 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.

Abstract:

"Bond Street, the pavement receding diagonally from left to right, is thronged with fashionable pedestrians. In the foreground five fashionably dressed men advance, forming a phalanx which pushes on to the cobbled roadway a lady, dressed rather for the ball-room than the street, to whose arm clings a little girl; both are in back view. The men smile or leer. The lady's neck diminishes to a point, tresses of hair hang from her turban (cf. BMSat 8755), which is trimmed by a gigantic erect feather. Her over-dress hangs from her shoulders and swells into folds which sweep the ground. She holds a fan. (Small copy in Grego.) Behind (right) three ladies walk arm-in-arm in the roadway: a fat woman in a riding-habit, looking through an opera-glass, and two younger women, one with her face covered by a transparent veil reaching nearly to the (knees, the other looking demurely down. Among the crowd in the background a man arm-in-arm with a military officer in back view (? Lord Moira) resembles Fox."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Politesse du grande monde

Topics:

Clothing & dress--England--1790-1800.
Crowds.
Etiquette.
Show windows.
Window displays.

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

Language:

English
French

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1796.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1796.

Format:

Image

Rights:

The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Auchincloss Gillray v. 9

Orbis Record:

8064348

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

11860617

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8900
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 417
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 210

Extent of digitization:

Complete folder digitized.

OID:

11860545

PID:

digcoll:4000862