- Title:
- Margarets Ghost. What's the Matter Auntee-Peg, What Makes You Put on Such a Long Face?
- Date:
- 1791
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 1/4in. (19.1 x 26cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper center: "Margaret's Ghost. | I was sitting by the Bedside of my smiling - injured - innocent - Lambkin, & holding one of the sweet tender hands of my amiable - gentle - dovelike - Cherub, when her Aunt came into the Room, with | a Face paler than Ashes, 'What is the matter, Auntee Peg' says my dear - chaste - adorable - kind - benificent - enchanting - heart - feeling - benificent - paragon of Goodness"; lower right: "Pub March 25th, 1791 by H. Humphrey. No. 18 Old Bond Street"; lettered below image, lower center: "What's the Matter Auntee - Peg, What Makes You put on such a long face? | She broke upon us the dishonorable - infamous - impudent - falso accusations, & the cruel message that accompanied them, at that moment a Vow issues from my torn, my rent, my wounded, my | agonizing | my suffering Heart, & my dear divine - glorious - Arch angelic - Angel, said &c &c"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1045
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41797
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James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, Margarets Ghost. What's the Matter Auntee-Peg, What Makes You Put on Such a Long Face?, 1791
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