Auntee_Peg._(BM_1868,0808.6027).jpg
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Summary
Auntee Peg.
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Title |
Auntee Peg.
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Description |
English:
An elderly and ugly woman (Miss Minifie) sits full face, squinting violently, her toes turned in. At her right hand is a table with writing materials and a letter 'To Miss E----- G------' [Gunning]. In her hand is a letter 'To the D------ of M-----' [Marlborough]. One cat sits on the table, another lies on its back at her feet. 29 March 1791
Hand-coloured etching |
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Depicted people | Associated with: Margaret Minifie , Susannah Gunning | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Current location |
Prints and Drawings
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Accession number |
1868,0808.6027
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) See BMSat 7980, &c. The suggestion is that the forged letters in the Gunning affair, which Miss Gunning was alleged to have written, were composed by her 'Auntee Peg', see BMSat 7982, &c, here represented as a cunning old maid. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6027 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
Licensing
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