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James Gillray: 'Sir Richard Worse-than-sly, exposing his wife's bottom; - o fye!'   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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James Gillray  (1756–1815)  wikidata:Q520806 s:en:Author:James Gillray q:en:James Gillray
 
James Gillray
Alternative names
James Gilray; Gillay; Gillray
Description British caricaturist and engraver
Date of birth/death 13 August 1756 Edit this at Wikidata 1 June 1815 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q520806
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'Sir Richard Worse-than-sly, exposing his wife's bottom; - o fye!'
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1782 cartoon by James Gillray, depicting Sir Richard Worsley helping George Bisset view his wife, Seymour Fleming, naked in a bath-house. The caption reads: "Sir Richard Worse-than-Sly Exposing his Wifes Bottom; – O fye!". The scene depicts Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet, on whose shoulders is perched his near neighbour and friend Captain George Bissett, viewing Sir Richard's naked wife through a window. The location is apparently at the bath house in Maidstone, where in the court case of 1782 it was alleged that Worsley had displayed his naked wife to Bisset. Possibly at Appuldurcombe House on the Isle of Wight (map of Isle of Wight on the wall), the Worseley seat. Bisset says to Worsley: "Charming view of the Back Settlements Sir Richard" ("Back Settlements" presumably being some landscape feature), whilst Lady Worseley's maid says to her mistress "Good lack (? sic) my Lady, the Captn will see all for nothing". On a parchment on the ground by Sir Richard's hat is written "My yoke is easy and my burden light" (Matthew 11:28–30). The image may refer to the fact that in 1782 Worsley brought a "criminal conversation" case for £20,000 against Bissett but the jury decided that Worsley had connived in the adultery and awarded him only one shilling in damages.
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium etching print
Dimensions height: 335 mm (13.18 in); width: 230 mm (9.05 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,335U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,230U174789
institution QS:P195,Q238587
Source/Photographer National Portrait Gallery: NPG D12980
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