Lady Godina's rout; - or - Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan / Js. Gy. d: et f: – Vintage Print
![Lady Godina's rout; - or - Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan / Js. Gy. d: et f:, [London] : H. Humphrey, 1796 March 12th. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/05/054321e3d0a8-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Lady Godina's rout; - or - Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan / Js. Gy. d: et f:. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Lady Godina's rout; - or - Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan / Js. Gy. d: et f:
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A pun on the legend of Lady Godiva gives this hand-colored etching its title. A Peeping Tom figure spies on a fashionable evening party, or "rout," where guests play Pope Joan, a card game of the period. The inscription "Js. Gy. d: et f:" credits James Gillray, the most celebrated caricaturist of the 1790s, with both designing and etching the plate, which H. Humphrey published in London on March 12, 1796. Gillray used bawdy humor and exaggerated figures like these to mock fashion, gambling, and the manners of high society, and the costumes and expressions here reward a close look.
| Created / published | [London] : H. Humphrey, 1796 March 12th. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Etchings Hand-colored 1790-1800.Cartoons (Commentary) British 1790-1800. |
| Notes | Catalog of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8899 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: Gillray and the Art of Caricature. |
| Subjects | Women--Clothing & dress--Great Britain--1790-1800. Lust--1790-1800. Card games--Great Britain--1790-1800. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,682 × 3,722 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222120 |
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