Gillray (James)

, Hannah Humphrey, 1796 (but c.1806).
a social satire set in fashionable high-society, it depicts a crowded salon dominated by enormously tall plumes sticking up from the ladies’ turbans. Most are seated at tables playing cards, our primary focus being on one in the left foreground occupied by four figures playing Pope-Joan. Facing us are a young girl and an elderly gentleman, possibly Rev William Sneyd, the occasional composer of caricatures engraved by Gillray. A large lady, thought to be the Duchess of Gordon, sits with her back squarely to us, and to her right, central to whole composition, is Lady Georgiana Gordon, dressed with a very revealing decolletage (hence Lady Godina), with a leering footman pressed against the back of her chair, reaching over her shoulder in distracted pretence of trimming the candle on their table..
260 by 360mm (10¼ by 14¼ inches).