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• Author/Creator:Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
  
• Title:Sir Richard Worse-than-sly, exposing his wifes bottom; O fye! [graphic].
  
• Publication:[London] : Pubd. March 14th, 1782, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand, [14 March 1782]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching with stipple and engraving ; plate mark 35.3 x 25 cm, on sheet 37.2 x 27 cm
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Watermark: J. Whatman 1811.
    Mounted on leaf 15 of volume 7 of 12.
    
  • Provenance:From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
    
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• Medium:wove paper
  
• Notes:Title etched below image.
  Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
  A version in reverse, with several alterations, of No. 6109 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
  
• Summary:The interior of a room in the floor of which is sunk a circular bath. A lady (Lady Worsley), holding a little drapery, steps into it. Through a window high in the wall behind her (right) appear the head and shoulders of Captain Bisset. Outside the building (right) Sir R. Worsley stands on tip-toe holding Bisset, who sits on his shoulders; his hat is on the ground, and by it lies a paper inscribed "My Yoke is Easy & my Burden light". Bisset is saying, "Charming View of the Back Settlements Sir Richard". On the farther side of the bath (left) stands a maid-servant of attractive appearance, holding her mistress's clothes; she holds up her right hand saying, "Good lack! My Lady the Captn will see all for Nothing". On the back wall is nailed a 'Map of the Isle of Wight'. The ceiling of the room has a circle inset in the rectangle which may support a dome. See British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, no. 6110
  Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, p. 33
  
• Subjects:Worsley, Richard, Sir, 1751-1805--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Bisset, Maurice George, 1757-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Worsley, Seymour Dorothy, Lady--Caricatures and cartoons.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
  Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
  Riviere & Son--Binding.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1782.
  Etchings--England--London--1782.
  Watermarks (Paper)--J. Whatman--1811.
  
• Also listed under:Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.