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A spencer & a thread-paper.   (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 spencer & a thread-paper.
Description
English: Two men in back view walk arm-in-arm, one (left) is short and fat, the other tall and thin. The former wears a short coat or spencer over his tail-coat, with wrinkled top-boots and a round hat, and carries a riding-switch. His hair is in a short queue with projecting side-pieces. The other wears a cylindrical hat with brim curled up at the sides, a coat reaching almost to his ankles with five capes forming a point in the centre of the back, with shoes tied with strings. He carries a bludgeon. The shoulders of both men are frosted with powder, see BMSat 8190. There is a landscape background.


The spencer was a short double-breasted overcoat without tails called after George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), who is probably here caricatured. Gillray anticipates the earliest use of the word (1796) in the 'O.E.D.' The name derives from Earl Spencer's bet in 1792 that he would invent a coat which should become the fashion. 'Social England', ed. Traill, 1904, v. 676. This garment was associated by Byron in 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' with Sir Lumley Skeffington (1771-1850):

'And sure great Skeffington must claim our praise,
For skirtless coats and skeletons of plays.' 17 May 1792


Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Depicted people Associated with: George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer
Date 1792
date QS:P571,+1792-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 223 millimetres
Width: 224 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,5.151
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 160 (small copy). Wright and Evans, No. 393. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Reproduced: Paston, pl. xl; 'Social England', ed. Traill, 1904, v. 676.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-5-151
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