Title

Spy's Taken at Greenwich', 1798. Artist: Anon

Caption

'Spy's Taken at Greenwich', 1798. Mother Windsor with four of her courtesans orders her girls to arrest Shute Barrington, the Bishop of Durham and the Duke of Queensberry, for spying on young women rolling down Greenwich Hill, a holiday custom. Barrington stands in back view holding his glass. This was an attack on Barrington for his protest against opera dancers.

Date

1798

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Reference

HRM19A97_479

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

18,8Mb (1,4Mb) / 9,2in x 8,0in / 2752 x 2388 (300dpi)

Keywords

London England female women woman people male man men fashion religious country religion monarch guy costume watching voyeur British English color colour queen royal Christianity dress location century Britain spying arrest royalty lady concept embarrassment voyeurism embarrassed bishop cartoon spyglass Greenwich arresting 18th century Eighteenth Century satire satirical Guildhall Library & Art Gallery Greenwich Hill sovereign TGN Shute Barrington William Douglas 4th Duke of Queensberry Bishop of Durham Mother Windsor etching caricature satire Anon Anonymous William Duke of George Moutard Woodward;Woodward George Moutard Barrington Douglas Shute Duke of Queensberry 4th Duke of Queensberry Queensberry