page_title: Etiquette
hierarchical_section_title: Etiquette
caption_attribution_description: English: Company shocked at a lady getting up to ring the bell / B., Esq, del. SUMMARY: A violent disturbance in a breakfast parlor. A woman stands to ring the bell-pull while the five men at the table react in horror, stumbling and knocking over items on the table as they attempt to stop her. The men are probably suitors of the woman. MEDIUM: 1 print&#160;: etching, hand-colored. CREATED/PUBLISHED: London&#160;: H. Humphrey, 1805 Nov. 20. According to Wright &amp; Evans, Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray (1851, OCLC 59510372), p. 473, this is "A widow and her suitors, who seem to have forgot their manners in the intensity of their admiration."
context_page_description: Etiquette, one aspect of decorum, is a code that rules how everyone is expected to behave, according to the social conventions and norms, in society, in a social class, or group. It is usually unwritten, but it may be put in written form. Because they are a product of the society's culture and history, the rules of etiquette are very different from time to time, and from one place and social group to another.
context_section_description: Etiquette, one aspect of decorum, is a code that rules how everyone is expected to behave, according to the social conventions and norms, in society, in a social class, or group. It is usually unwritten, but it may be put in written form. Because they are a product of the society's culture and history, the rules of etiquette are very different from time to time, and from one place and social group to another.
caption: In Company Shocked at a Lady Getting up to Ring the Bell (1805) James Gillray caricatured  "A widow and her suitors, who seem to have forgot their manners in the intensity of their admiration."[1]
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