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The Pic-Nic Orchestra (1802) by James Gillray, featuring a fun group of British upper crust aristocrats with the beautiful pianist Mrs. Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire (1738–1816) right in the middle of it all!

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James Gillray (1756-1815), 'The Powerful Arm of Providence: An Allegorical Print, Applicable to the Year 1831', 1800 "Satire: Providence dropping her flowers on England, at end of rainbow, with storm raging in sky and 'cosmic' hand reaching out from behind cloud to crush solar system" Source

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Un petit souper, a la Parisienne; - or - a family of sans-culotts refreshing, after the fatigues of the day (detail) by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey

hand-coloured etching, published 20 September 1792

11 1/4 in. x 14 1/4 in. (287 mm x 362 mm) paper size

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A Voluptuary Under the Horrors of Digestion

James Gillray British Publisher Hannah Humphrey British Subject George, Prince of Wales British July 2, 1792

"Gillray’s famously brutal caricature of George, Prince of Wales encapsulates the effects of uncontrolled self-indulgence upon the heir to the British throne. Sprawled in his chair after a lavish meal, the prince picks his teeth with a meat fork; his lack of gentility is underscored by the over-flowing chamber pot at his elbow used to anchor unpaid bills. Just thirty years old, his accumulated ailments can be inferred from remedies piled at right – pills and potions to treat "stinking breath", "piles" (hemorrhoids), venereal disease and poor digestion. A portrait on the wall suggests a more effective remedy – depicting Luigi Carnarro, a Venetian nobleman whose life was famously saved by going on a strict diet. By including "Voluptuary" in the title, Gillray invoked contemporary worries that traditional British masculine virtues were being enervated by a culture obsessed with luxury."