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Summary
| Pepys and Lady Batten | |
|---|---|
| Artist |
James Digman Wingfield |
| Title |
Pepys and Lady Batten |
| Date | 1861 |
| Medium | oil on paper mounted on canvas |
| Dimensions | 30 x 25 inches |
| Notes | Pepys helps Lady Batten on 'dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes' in front of the King's Head Tavern. In Victorian times, when this was painted, scenes from the colorful, libertine Restoration must have seemed deliciously titilating. From the Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 15 November 1665. The entry for that day reads in part: "Up and all the morning at the office, busy, and at noon to the King’s Head taverne, where all the Trinity House dined to-day, to choose a new Master in the room of Hurlestone, that is dead, and Captain Crispe is chosen. But, Lord! to see how Sir W. Batten governs all and tramples upon Hurlestone, but I am confident the Company will grow the worse for that man’s death, for now Batten, and in him a lazy, corrupt, doating rogue, will have all the sway there. After dinner who comes in but my Lady Batten, and a troop of a dozen women almost, and expected, as I found afterward, to be made mighty much of, but nobody minded them; but the best jest was, that when they saw themselves not regarded, they would go away, and it was horrible foule weather; and my Lady Batten walking through the dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes, she dropped one of her galoshes in the dirt, where it stuck, and she forced to go home without one, at which she was horribly vexed, and I led her; and after vexing her a little more in mirth, I parted..." |
| Source/Photographer | Private collection |
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
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