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The golden pippin   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
The golden pippin
Description
English: Head of an old woman in profile to the left, tilted upwards. She wears a cap which conceals her hair. 9 February 1783
Etching
Depicted people Representation of: Betty Munro
Date 1783
date QS:P571,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 99 millimetres
Width: 76 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,2.2
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) 'Betty' is written on the print in an old hand; [Mr Hawkins expands this into 'Mrs Humphrey's Betty', but in 1796, the date of Gillray's 'Twopenny Whist', she was a much younger woman than this Betty in 1780, to whom she bears no resemblance. A resemblance is traceable (the ravages of time allowed for) to the mezzotint of 'Betty' by J. Dixon after Falconer, 1750. Chaloner Smith, p. 213] she is evidently the Betty of the famous fruit shop in St. James's Street, the 'patriot Betty' of Mason's 'Heroic Epistle', 1773. 'Betty's' was a fashionable 'lounge' and centre of gossip, often mentioned by H. Walpole and others. She was Elizabeth Munro or Neale, 1730-97, called 'the Queen of apple-women' by the 'Gentleman's Magazine' (obituary).

A burletta, 'The Golden Pippin', was first played 1772-3. 'Genest', v. 364.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-2-2
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