File:A pig in a poke. Whist, whist. (BM 1851,0901.433).jpg
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[edit]A pig in a poke. Whist, whist.
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Artist |
Print made by: James Gillray
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Title |
A pig in a poke. Whist, whist. |
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Description |
English: Four men, their feet cut off by the lower margin, play whist at a rectangular table; each has one card in his hand and is about to play the last trick, the tricks piled on the table show that each side has six tricks. Sir Joseph Mawbey (left) looks at his partner (right), a very stout man wearing a legal wig, both hold court cards (diamonds). The man seated on the farther side of the table looks sideways at Mawbey, saying, "O---h! you've brought your Pigs to a fine Market!" His partner, in back view, is a very thin man whose hair extends grotesquely on each side of his head; he holds the five of diamonds. From Mawbey's pocket projects a document, 'Surrey Commission', and a book, 'Burn Justice' (Burn's well-known 'Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer', used by all acting J.P.s, not an exhortation to incendiarism as Evans supposes). Above his head is a picture of a pig feeding from a trough. 10 December 1788
Hand-coloured etching |
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Depicted people | Associated with: Sir Joseph Mawbey | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1788 date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1851,0901.433 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) This is said by Evans to relate to a quarrel between Mawbey and his steward, whom he arrested for a balance of £30 alleged to be due; the steward brought an action and received £150 damages. Mawbey's partner is identified by E. Hawkins as Mr. Stevenson. Mawbey, a Southwark distiller, bred great quantities of hogs, and is seldom mentioned without some allusion to this. In March 1789 Gillray wrote to Fores asking payment (£1 11s. 6d.) for this print as well as for BMSats 7380, 7381. Broadley, 'Napoleon in Caricature', 1911, pp. 26-7. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 106. Wright and Evans, No. 38. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-433 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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