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Brittania intoxicated, or the great ones in a bagnio   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Brittania intoxicated, or the great ones in a bagnio
Description
English: A drunken orgy in a room with mirrors on the wall. Britannia, dressed as a courtesan (r.), leans back in a chair, dead drunk, in her right. hand is a wine-bottle. One foot rests on her shield. A man standing behind pours over her the contents of a wine-bottle, in his right. hand he holds out a wine-glass. In the centre is a staggering figure wearing the ribbon and order of the Bath. His pocket is being picked by a plainly dressed man, while another holds his shoulder. Two men aimlessly flourish drawn swords. Another aims a blow with a long pole at a mirror. A courtesan has broken a mirror with a wine-bottle which she is waving in the air. In the background a woman, seated on a man's knee, is picking his pocket. On the floor in the foreground are broken wine-glasses, and a broken punch-bowl inscribed "the Constitution". The explanatory text asks "Who are the greatest drunkards? - Those at the helm - Who set the most glaring examples of adultery, fornication, &c -..". 1 June 1772
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Date 1772
date QS:P571,+1772-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 102 millimetres
Width: 153 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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1868,0808.10009
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

>From the 'Oxford Magazine', viii. 185.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-10009
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