Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Madame Giradelli. The celebrated fire proof female.
Call Number
E South 13/GC021/Box 25/Normal/19th c./Artist Williams, Charles GA 2011.01057
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc4f16cf653
Publisher
London : [s.n.], n.d. [1818]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1818
Extent
1 item ; sheet 38 x 24.8 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, [1978]. No. 13033 (gives tentative date as 1818).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Caricature portrait. Full-length view of Giradelli with her hand in a fire pit, gazing out at viewer.
Signed in plate, lower left: "CW fecit".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Women magicians—England—London—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Occupations—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Fairs—England—London—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Italians—England—London—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b1e898e4-4658-4428-9b2e-059d81173df5/manifest