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A modern elegance. A portrait   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
A modern elegance. A portrait
Description
English: A lady, her head in profile to the left, looks sideways at her reflection in a large wall-mirror. She wears a loose high-waisted dress, giving the appearance of pregnancy, her figure defined under its folds. Locks of hair are twined in, and escape from, a turbanlike cap ornamented with four erect ostrich feathers. In her right hand is a fan. On the floor is a patterned carpet. 22 May 1795
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury
Date 1795
date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 344 millimetres
Width: 237 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.731
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) A portrait of Lady Charlotte Campbell, afterwards Bury, and also a satire on costume, see BMSats 8388, 8571, 8896, &c. (Lord Holland notes 'the face not very like'.) She was noted for wearing draperies which defined her beautiful figure. Lady Stafford writes, 3 Feb. 1794: 'Lady C. Campbell is sadly abused about her Dress. I think it very bad, but her Beauty makes the women severe . . . .' 'Private Corr. of Lord Granville Leveson Gower', 1916, p. 79. Cf. the first of the satires introduced as (supposed) passages from Ireland's Vortigern (see BMSat 8883):

'1. Lady Ch. C-b-ll.

"Looke what a shape!

"Limbs fondlie fashioned in the wanton moulde "Of Nature! - Warm in Love's slie wytcheries "And scorninge all the draperie of Arte, "A spider's loome now weaves her thinne attire,

  • * * * [Bate-Dudley,] 'Passages . . . on the great

literary Trial of Vortigern and Rowena', p. 17.

See BMSat 8720, an altered impression.

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 196. Wright and Evans, No. 400. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1800. Reproduced, Paston, Pl. xlviii.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-731
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