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Company Shocked at a Lady Getting up to Ring the Bell (1805) edit

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Original – Company Shocked at a Lady Getting up to Ring the Bell (1805). Thomas Wright and R H Evans describe the scene as "A widow and her suitors, who seem to have forgot their manners in the intensity of their admiration."

Reason: Good quality image of an 1805 James Gillray cartoon
Articles in which this image appears: Etiquette, Bell pull
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others
Creator: James Gillray

Support as nominator – SchroCat (talk) 17:14, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Not sure I see the EV in either article... to be quite frank I don't see what the bell pull means in this context either. If there was something discussing this a bit better, I'd support. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 18:14, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly courtship? It's a comment on the social faux pas of gentlemen allowing a lady to stand to summon the servants (via the bell pull), rather than doing it themselves. - SchroCat (talk) 00:07, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See, that's something that a lot of people won't get without actual textual commentary. Unless there were discussion of this code of etiquette (something I can't see being very common now) in an article, I doubt this would have the EV (encyclopedic value) to pass. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:30, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – Well, the caricatures of the supposed "gentlemen" are funny – maybe that's more the point than the period code of etiquette. Sca (talk) 14:20, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:15, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]