print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1980,U.1006
- Title
- Object: Mrs M.A.Clarke
- Description
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Mrs. Clarke stands in the lobby of the House of Commons, a section of which is seen through the partly open door: the corner of three tiers of empty benches and the gallery, with a strip of the Speaker's chair, showing his right elbow. She is directed to the right, with head turned to the spectator. She wears a plain blue pelisse over a white dress, a straw bonnet with lace drapery which she raises from her face. In her dropped right hand she holds a huge (?) chinchilla muff. She is elegant, alluring, and assured.
25 February 1809
Etching
- Production date
- 1809
- Dimensions
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Height: 248 millimetres
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Width: 170 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
Mrs. Clarke, see No. 11216, &c, was examined in the House of Commons on 1, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, and 22 Feb. 'Parl. Debates', xii. 'Her attire was a light blue mantle with a veil, which she threw back that her face might by chance captivate some of her judges.' (Broadside, No. 11292.)
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Cataloguing supported by the Pilgrim Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1980
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1980,U.1006
