So! So! The Race was for a Husband.
[maybe engraved by Kingsbury]
Pub May 1 1788 by S W Fores Saterist N° 3 Piccadilly.
Hand coloured etching, sheet 265 x 430mm (10¼ x 17"), on I Taylor laid water marked paper. Trimmed to plate on left sides, thread margins on others.
A very fat Other Windsor (1751-1799), 5th Earl of Plymouth, and Sarah Archer (1762–1838) (Windsor, Countess of Plymouth, then later Countess Amherst) walk together arm in arm towards a country Church where the vicar and his clerk wait in the porch. Plymouth comments on this and Sarah Archer replies getting married will "repair" her virginity and on her mother's surly temper. Her discontented mother Lady Sarah Archer (nee West) walks away from them remarking that marriage hampers a hedonist lifestyle and that is not for herself. Sister's Maria, Harriet and Anne are behind the couple, two hold hands walking together where another turns her back on her mother running away. Lady Sarah Archer (nee West) was a gambler known as one of "Faro Ladies" whose virtues were scrutinized because of belief of domestic duty and sexual misconduct; women gamblers, after having lost their limited personal income (Pin-money), thus without legal or monetary credit to their name, could only wager their sexuality.
BM Satires 7430
[Ref: 56460] £360.00
Pub May 1 1788 by S W Fores Saterist N° 3 Piccadilly.
Hand coloured etching, sheet 265 x 430mm (10¼ x 17"), on I Taylor laid water marked paper. Trimmed to plate on left sides, thread margins on others.
A very fat Other Windsor (1751-1799), 5th Earl of Plymouth, and Sarah Archer (1762–1838) (Windsor, Countess of Plymouth, then later Countess Amherst) walk together arm in arm towards a country Church where the vicar and his clerk wait in the porch. Plymouth comments on this and Sarah Archer replies getting married will "repair" her virginity and on her mother's surly temper. Her discontented mother Lady Sarah Archer (nee West) walks away from them remarking that marriage hampers a hedonist lifestyle and that is not for herself. Sister's Maria, Harriet and Anne are behind the couple, two hold hands walking together where another turns her back on her mother running away. Lady Sarah Archer (nee West) was a gambler known as one of "Faro Ladies" whose virtues were scrutinized because of belief of domestic duty and sexual misconduct; women gamblers, after having lost their limited personal income (Pin-money), thus without legal or monetary credit to their name, could only wager their sexuality.
BM Satires 7430
[Ref: 56460] £360.00