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James Gillray (1757-1815)
A New Edition Considerably Enlarged of Attitudes Faithfully Copied from Nature 1807
Etching on blue paper | 26.2 x 20.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 655755
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An etching satirising Lady Hamilton's famous 'attitudes'. She stands in an attitude of grief, her right hand raised to her forehead, holding a child under her left arm. Emma, Lady Hamilton, performed her classically-inspired 'attitudes' from 1787 to audiences of invited guests in Naples, where her husband Sir William was British Envoy. In 1794, the attitudes were the subject of a set of engravings by Tommaso Piroli after Friedrich Rehberg. Piroli's prints (and implicitly Lady Hamilton, by then resident back in London) were mocked by James Gillray in an 1807 series of twelve plates showing the renowned beauty as an ungainly frump. This print satirises plate twelve of Piroli's series.
Provenance
Purchased by George IV when Prince of Wales from Hannah Humphrey, 24 April 1807 (Royal Archives, GEO/MAIN/27397)
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Medium and techniques
Etching on blue paper
Measurements
26.2 x 20.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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