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A sketch of Gee's farm, the seat of blinking Billy   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Heath

Published by: Thomas McLean
Title
A sketch of Gee's farm, the seat of blinking Billy
Description
English: Lord William Pitt Lennox, young, handsome, and fashionable, stands on tiptoe, shading his eyes and looking to the left. In his left hand is an open and empty bird-cage; a tray of food hangs down, spilling its contents. He wears a tight-waisted blue coat with white trousers, and spurred boots, his hat, gloves, and riding-switch are at his feet, near a large sheet of music with the words of a song: 'whither ye wanton would ye be—half so happy as with me—stay here and Sing &c'. He says: 'My Singing Bird escaped, no doubt she has flown to the Wood, and by this time in the very bosom of it—how d—d unfortunate a man cannot see thro a Wood with both eyes'. On the edge of a wood in the middle distance, partly hidden by a tree (left), a man helps a lady into a carriage. In the background, in a park-like setting, is a tiny cottage ornée with a veranda. By it is a signpost: 'Gee's Farm'. June 9 1830
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Lord William Pitt Lennox
Date 1830
date QS:P571,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 372 millimetres

Width: 261 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1868,0808.9177
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(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)

One of several prints on the elopement of Lennox's wife Mary Ann Paton (see No. 14872) with Joseph Wood, also an opera singer. The marriage was dissolved in the Scottish courts in 1831, and by Act of Parliament in 1834. Wood married Lady W. Lennox. See Nos. 16421-4, 16494, 16508, 16512.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-9177
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