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Title
Auntee Peg.
Description
English: An elderly and ugly woman (Miss Minifie) sits full face, squinting violently, her toes turned in. At her right hand is a table with writing materials and a letter 'To Miss E----- G------' [Gunning]. In her hand is a letter 'To the D------ of M-----' [Marlborough]. One cat sits on the table, another lies on its back at her feet. 29 March 1791
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Margaret Minifie, Susannah Gunning
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 261 millimetres
Width: 200 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6027
Notes

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

See BMSat 7980, &c. The suggestion is that the forged letters in the Gunning affair, which Miss Gunning was alleged to have written, were composed by her 'Auntee Peg', see BMSat 7982, &c, here represented as a cunning old maid.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6027
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