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A bath of the moderns   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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A bath of the moderns
Description
English: The interior of a room in which a lady is dressing, an attendant standing beside her. The outside of the building is shown on the left; a stout military officer supports on his shoulders a thin one, who is looking into the room through a window under the thatched roof. This is Sir Richard Worsley, Colonel of the Hampshire Militia, helping Captain Bissett to look into the room of a cold bath establishment at Maidstone. Worsley is saying, “Captain do you view the whole Garrison”. He answers “Only the Breast work & cover'd way”.


Lady Worsley is sitting on a chair in profile to the left pulling on her stockings, fully dressed except that the front of her dress exposes her breast. She wears a military coat with epaulettes, and is saying, “Bliss - it he goes all lengths to pleasure me”. The attendant, an elderly woman in cap and apron, holds up her hands saying, “Lord my lady I believe the Captain wants to be in the watering place”. Beneath the title is engraved, “lately discovered at Maidstone, by Sr Cuckeldome Worse-Sly, Fellow of the Society of Antiqueereones”. 4 March 1782


Etching with use of the rocker and partly aquatinted
Depicted people Representation of: Capt George Maurice Bissett
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 205 millimetres
Width: 285 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4802
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

The evidence at the trial was that Lady Worsley was in the habit of going to the cold bath at Maidstone, where the Worsleys lived when Sir Richard was in camp at Coxheath, while her husband and his friend Bissett waited for her; that on one occasion, when she had almost finished dressing, Worsley tapped at the door, saying, “Bissett is going to get up to look at you”, and his face appeared at the window. This was the occasion of a number of pictorial satires. Worsley was F.R.S. and F.S.A. See BMSat 6105, 6107-12.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4802
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