File:Ecclesiastical scrutiny- or the Durham inquest on duty. (BM 1868,0808.6710).jpg
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[edit]Ecclesiastical scrutiny- or the Durham inquest on duty. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
Ecclesiastical scrutiny- or the Durham inquest on duty. |
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Description |
English: Barrington of Durham and two other bishops superintend the dress of four young women. Barrington, seated (left) in profile to the right, stares through a glass at a danseuse who wears long rigid stays and on one leg a clumsy buckled shoe and striped stocking; her other foot, in tiny shoe and trim stocking, she displays on a stool, beside which lies the other clumsy shoe and stocking labelled 'for Bacchus and Ariadne'. She says: "I really now think it a shame to disguise such a leg as this why my fortune will be ruin'd". He says: "Aye the upper part will do very well, many a husband will bless me for introducing these Stays". He holds a paper: 'Petticoat Reform to be observed by all good . . . .'
Hand-coloured etching |
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Depicted people | Associated with: Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1798 date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/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 |
1868,0808.6710 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) See BMSat 9297, &c. Porteus began in Feb. 1798 to lecture in London on 'the growing relaxation of public manners'. See R. Hodgson, 'Life of Bishop Porteus', 1811, pp. 130 f. 'Bacchus and Ariadne' was a new ballet, composed by the Ballet Master Gallet, with which the season 1797-8 opened (on 25 Nov.). Ariadne was Mme Laboire. Principal danseuses: Mme Rose, Mme Hilligsburg, and Mile J. Hilligsburg. 'Morning Chronicle', 15 and 27 Nov. 1797. Reproduced, Fuchs, 'Die Frau in der Karikatur', 1906, after p. 432. 9X 17 in. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6710 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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