Title

'Exaltation of Faro's daughters', 1796. Artist: Unknown

Caption

'Exaltation of Faro's daughters', 1796. Albinia, Countess of Buckinghamshire (left) and Lady Archer are ridiculed in the stocks, as the mob throw rotten vegetables at them. Below, a notice reads: Cure for Gambling, published by Lord Kenyon in the Court of King's Bench. Lord Chief Justice Lord Kenyon had proclaimed: If any prosecutions [against gambling] are fairly brought before me and the parties are justly convicted, whatever may be their rank or station in the country, though they should be the first ladies in the land, they shall certainly exhibit themselves in the Pillory. The two women had been reported to the authorities for playing the illegal game of faro, and were fined. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).
The Print Collector collection

Date

Nov 30, 1999

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C24_438

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (4,6Mb) / 12,2in x 15,9in / 3672 x 4756 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people vegetables vegetable gambling game British headdress feathers feather card game rotten Faro century stocks Britain lady concept punishment pastime B&W humiliation headgear MONOCHROME ridicule humiliated ostrich feather black & white black and white B W aristocracy aristocrat 18th century Eighteenth Century The Print Collector countess George Albinia Lady Archer Countess of Buckinghamshire caricature portrait ostrich feathers Unknown James Countess of Lady Sarah James Gillray;Gillray West Archer George Paston Paston Symonds Emily Morse Emily Morse Symonds Sarah (West) Lady Archer Sarah West Lady Sarah Archer Lady Sarah Countess of Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire Lady Bucking George Paston caricature portrait