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| Keywords: Lady-Godinas-Route-Gillray.jpeg Lady Godina's Rout; ”or ”Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan Js Gy d et f SUMMARY A fashionable crowd playing cards at two tables In the foreground four people playing the game Pope-Joan One of the women is wearing a loose fitting semi-transparent dress with her breasts exposed Behind her peering down her dress is a man who is about to cut off a candle due to his distracted state Rear view of a fat woman dominates the left side of the picture MEDIUM 1 print etching hand-colored CREATED/PUBLISHED London H Humphrey 1796 March 12th According to the National Portrait Gallery of the UK the caricature refers to Lady Georgiana Gordon 1781 “1853 Duchess of Bedford from 1803 until her death; the title and the lecherous servant refer to Lady Godiva Pope-Joan is a card game; Lady Godina is holding the diamond nine which is called the Pope in that game The man sitting on Lady Godina 's right is John Sneyd 1763 “1835 ; the fat woman sitting on her left is Albinia Countess of Buckinghamshire died 1816 Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division LC-USZC4-8764 color film copy transparency http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g08000/3g08700/3g08764u tif uncompressed archival TIFF version 49 MB color level pick white point cropped and converted to JPEG quality level 88 with the GIMP 2 4 5 1796-03-12 creator James Gillray No known restriction on publication File Lady Godina's rout; - or - Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan by James Gillray jpg LOC-image cph 3g08764 PD-old-100 James Gillray 1796 cartoons Caricatures of the United Kingdom Card games in art Georgina Gordon Duchess of Bedford Servants in art People with candles in art Décolleté in art Feathers in art 18th-century art Men and women in art Fashion in 1796 Voyeurism in art Sitting females in art | ||||
