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The Flattering Glass, or Nell's Mistake   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Flattering Glass, or Nell's Mistake
Description
English: The interior of a small room; Mrs. Jordan (right) stands in profile to the right, delightedly regarding her reflection in an oval wall-mirror. She wears feathers in her hair, elbow-sleeves, and a long train; the mirror reflects a non-existent ducal coronet; the frame is ornamented with a similar coronet and the letters 'D.C.', explained by a paper which lies on a table: 'In Private Rehearsal The Alchymist Doll Common by Mrs Jo[rdan]'. She says "Oh Gemini! is that gay, fine thing me if it is and the Glass be true, I am no less than my Lady Dutchess!"


On the extreme left is a slightly open door, showing the profile of the Duke of Clarence, who calls, "Nelly! Nelly come here and Play your Part! Oh! how purely she does it!" On the panels of the door are two pictures: above, a ship in full sail, inscribed, 'The Duke Man of War'. Below, the Duke (a tiny figure) seated on the edge of a stream, fishing; in the background is a house; inscription: 'Neptune Sporting in the River Jordan. NB. The above River is not at present Fordable' (an allusion to Richard Ford, Mrs. Jordan's former lover, see BMSat 7835). On the wall by the door is a placard: 'Settlement Articles of Agreement Provided for by John Bull'. Below this is a large cocked hat on a stool. A cat peers through the door at the Duke; it urinates on a (Garter) star. 28 October 1791


Etching with hand-colouring
Depicted people Representation of: Mrs Dorothy Jordan
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 174 millimetres
Width: 269 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.550
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

One of many satires on the Duke of Clarence and Dorothea Jordan, see BMSat 7835, &c. One of her parts was Nell in Coffey's 'The Devil to Pay', see BMSat 7908.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-550
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