Lady Godina's rout; -or- Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan, James Gillray, 1796

A fashionable crowd, with two card-tables, a round table in the foreground (left) at which four persons play pope-joan; the most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left, her loose semi-transparent draperies revealing her person and leaving her breasts almost uncovered. A leering man stands behind her chair, negligently holding candle-snuffers to a candle on the table, in order to peer down her décolletage. A stout lady in back view, sitting on a stool (identified as lady buckinghamshire, but (?) duchess of gordon), a little girl, and an elderly man (identified as dr. Sneyd) complete the table. On the right is another card-table at which three persons are playing. Standing figures freely sketched form a background, the whole design being dominated by the erect feathers of the ladies, usually springing from a turban, cf. Bmsat 8755. 12 march 1796 hand-coloured etching and engraving. Date: 1796. Dimensions: Height: 262 mm; ; Width: 358 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire. Collection: British Museum. Lady Godina's rout; -or- Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan (BM 1851,0901.783)