File:Gretna Green (BM 1935,0522.2.144.a).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(1,600 × 1,240 pixels, file size: 404 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Gretna Green   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Gretna Green
Description
English: The blacksmith, wearing a parsonic hat, wig, and gown, stands in the middle of his smithy between two couples. He holds the wrist of an elderly and eager woman (left), addressing a young one (right). Beneath the design: 'A Lady of Sixty, and a young woman of seventeen, lately presented themselves with their paramours at Gretna Green. "Hold hold (said the Matrimonial Vulcan to the Virgin) you are young and can wait a little, I see your Grandmother is impatient, let me put on her fetters first.'  ? c. 1800
Etching with hand-colouring
Date between 1795 and 1805
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1805-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 192 millimetres
Width: 230 millimetres (cut)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.2.144.a
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

'Caricatures', ii. 144.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-2-144-a
Permission
(Reusing this file)
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Licensing[edit]

This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original 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, 1929.


This tag is designed for use where there may be a need to assert that any enhancements (eg brightness, contrast, colour-matching, sharpening) are in themselves insufficiently creative to generate a new copyright. It can be used where it is unknown whether any enhancements have been made, as well as when the enhancements are clear but insufficient. For known raw unenhanced scans you can use an appropriate {{PD-old}} tag instead. For usage, see Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag.


Note: This tag applies to scans and photocopies only. For photographs of public domain originals taken from afar, {{PD-Art}} may be applicable. See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag.

File history

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

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current18:18, 12 May 2020Thumbnail for version as of 18:18, 12 May 20201,600 × 1,240 (404 KB)Copyfraud (talk | contribs)British Museum public domain uploads (Copyfraud/BM) Satirical prints in the British Museum 1795 #6,094/12,043

The following page uses this file:

Metadata