Select Page

File:Company-Shocked-Gillray.jpeg

Original file (4,196 × 2,808 pixels, file size: 3.1 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: Company shocked at a lady getting up to ring the bell / B., Esq, del.

SUMMARY: A violent disturbance in a breakfast parlor. A woman stands to ring the bell-pull while the five men at the table react in horror, stumbling and knocking over items on the table as they attempt to stop her. The men are probably suitors of the woman.

MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: London : H. Humphrey, 1805 Nov. 20.

According to Wright & Evans, Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray (1851, OCLC 59510372), p. 473, this is "A widow and her suitors, who seem to have forgot their manners in the intensity of their admiration."
Date
Source Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-8784 (color film copy transparency), uncompressed archival TIFF version (49 MB), level color (pick white point, pick black point), cropped and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5.
Author
James Gillray (1756–1815)  wikidata:Q520806 s:en:Author:James Gillray q:en:James Gillray
 
James Gillray
Alternative names
James Gilray; Gillay; Gillray
Description British caricaturist and engraver
Date of birth/death 13 August 1756 Edit this at Wikidata 1 June 1815 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q520806
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 No known restriction on publication.
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3g08784.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ বাংলা ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ Ido ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ Bahaso Melayu Jambi ∙ lietuvių ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 中文 ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙

Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

Captions

Company Shocked at a Lady Getting up to Ring the Bell

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

inception

20 November 1805Gregorian

media type

image/jpeg

checksum

4eeba699de8f3e4cf8451cba3723964c50179738

determination method or standard: SHA-1

data size

3,253,554 byte

height

2,808 pixel

width

4,196 pixel

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current07:15, 10 July 2008Thumbnail for version as of 07:15, 10 July 20084,196 × 2,808 (3.1 MB)Eubulides{{Information |Description= {{en|Company shocked at a lady getting up to ring the bell / B., Esq, del. SUMMARY: A violent disturbance in a breakfast parlor. A woman stands to ring the bell-pull while the five men at the table react in horror, stumbling

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.