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| Keywords: Pepys and Lady Batten by James Digman Wingfield.jpg oil paper canvas 30 x 25 inches Pepys helps Lady Batten on 'dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes' in front of the King's Head Tavern In Victorian times when this was painted scenes from the colorful libertine Restoration must have seemed deliciously titilating From the Diary of Samuel Pepys Wednesday 15 November 1665 The entry for that day reads in part Up and all the morning at the office busy and at noon to the King ™s Head taverne where all the Trinity House dined to-day to choose a new Master in the room of Hurlestone that is dead and Captain Crispe is chosen But Lord to see how Sir W Batten governs all and tramples upon Hurlestone but I am confident the Company will grow the worse for that man ™s death for now Batten and in him a lazy corrupt doating rogue will have all the sway there After dinner who comes in but my Lady Batten and a troop of a dozen women almost and expected as I found afterward to be made mighty much of but nobody minded them; but the best jest was that when they saw themselves not regarded they would go away and it was horrible foule weather; and my Lady Batten walking through the dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes she dropped one of her galoshes in the dirt where it stuck and she forced to go home without one at which she was horribly vexed and I led her; and after vexing her a little more in mirth I parted Private Collection Public domain May be reproduced without permission PD-Art PD-Art 1861 paintings Portrait Paintings Samuel Pepys Galoshes | ||||
