Making Decent
James Gillray (Chelsea 1757 - London 1815)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1806
Materials
Paper
Measurements
318 x 426 mm; 269 mm (Height); 378 mm (Width); 262 mm (Height); 367 mm (Width)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206150
Summary
Print, satirical, 'Making Decent - i.e. Broad bottomites getting into the Grand Costume.' J. Gillray inv and f't. Pub Feb 20 1806 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's St. Label on back - A Thome, rue de Babylone, Paris. Stuck on backing mount.
Provenance
Part of the Bambridge Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Mrs Elsie Bambridge (1896-1976)
Makers and roles
James Gillray (Chelsea 1757 - London 1815), caricaturist Hannah Humphrey, engraver and publisher