File:A bath of the moderns (BM 1868,0808.4802).jpg
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[edit]A bath of the moderns ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
A bath of the moderns |
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Description |
English: The interior of a room in which a lady is dressing, an attendant standing beside her. The outside of the building is shown on the left; a stout military officer supports on his shoulders a thin one, who is looking into the room through a window under the thatched roof. This is Sir Richard Worsley, Colonel of the Hampshire Militia, helping Captain Bissett to look into the room of a cold bath establishment at Maidstone. Worsley is saying, “Captain do you view the whole Garrison”. He answers “Only the Breast work & cover'd way”.
Etching with use of the rocker and partly aquatinted |
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Depicted people | Representation of: Capt George Maurice Bissett | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1782 date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.4802 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) The evidence at the trial was that Lady Worsley was in the habit of going to the cold bath at Maidstone, where the Worsleys lived when Sir Richard was in camp at Coxheath, while her husband and his friend Bissett waited for her; that on one occasion, when she had almost finished dressing, Worsley tapped at the door, saying, “Bissett is going to get up to look at you”, and his face appeared at the window. This was the occasion of a number of pictorial satires. Worsley was F.R.S. and F.S.A. See BMSat 6105, 6107-12. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4802 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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