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"Patience on a monument."   (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
"Patience on a monument."
Description
English: The design simulates a pyramidal monument in bas relief against a stone wall, supported on short Corinthian pilasters between which is an inscription. On the face of the pyramid Lady Cecilia Johnston (see BMSat 5748), is seated in profile to the right on a round close-stool. She is thin and witch-like, her chin is support by her left hand, the elbow resting on her knee. In her right hand is a torn paper inscribed 'Tranquility'. Behind the stool stands a little cupid holding his nose; in his left hand is a torch, reversed. On the ground (right) are bones and two skulls which gaze at Lady Cecilia. Beneath is the inscription:



'"By Patience, minds an equal temper know,
"Nor swell too high, nor sink too low;
"Patience the fiercest grief can charm,
"And fate's severest rage disarm:
"Patience can soften pain to ease,
"And make despair and madness please
"This the divine Cecilia found,
"And to her Husbands ears, confind the sound."
Vide St Cecilias Day' 19 September 1791


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Lady Cecelia Johnston
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 312 millimetres
Width: 213 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6101
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Gillray had travestied the lady as St. Cecilia, see BMSat 6104. Lady Cecilia was known (ironically) as 'the divine', see BMSat 8158. One of a set of satires on the elderly leaders of fashion caricatured in BMSat 7218, see BMSats 7972-5.

Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6101
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