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Veluti in speculum   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Veluti in speculum
Description
English: The proscenium of a small theatre is suggested by an archway over which is the accustomed motto, forming the title. On the front of the stage a very fat lady (left) and a thin man (right) in Elizabethan or early Stuart dress advance to meet each other with outstretched hands. Beneath the design is etched:



"Fore Gad that Caecilia 's a charming young Woman !
Were you Miss Larolles at the Play at Ham-Common ?" 26 April 1784


Etching
Depicted people Associated with: Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 262 millimetres
Width: 217 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5273
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The figures are identified in a contemporary hand as Mrs. Hobart and Mr. Bradshaw. Mrs. Hobart had a villa on Ham Common which she called 'Sans Souci', where she gave fêtes and amateur theatricals. Walpole, 'Letters', xii. 26, 365; xv. 1, 117. Miss Larolles, a character in Fanny Burney's 'Cecilia', is a young and lively lady to be impersonated by the fat Mrs. Hobart. Cf. BMSat 7737.

The manner resembles that of drawings by Townshend.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5273
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