A scene in the new farce of The lady and the Devil [graphic] / Cruikshank fecit.
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84184920
- Copyright Date:
- [June 1820]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.5 x 36 cm
- Notes:
- "Plate 2"--Upper left corner.
Attribution to Robert Cruikshank based on expertise of Andrew Edmunds.
CtY-LW
For an Irish copy of nearly identical composition, see no. 13728 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title etched below image. - Abstract:
- "The King is on the throne (right), with five advisers seated at a round table at the base of the dais; all are thrown into confusion by the arrival of a top-booted messenger (left) who rushes into the room, hair on end, yelling, "The Queen's Arrived!!!" The terrified King screams: "The Devil!!!!" His wig stands on end and his crown falls off; a bottle of 'Curacoa' is upset. The Ministers are engaged on 'Plans for Divorce', a paper so inscribed is on the table; all register terror. The Archbishop of Canterbury says "The Lord have mercy on our vicked Souls," the pious Liverpool says "Amen." All are broadly burlesqued, with goggling eyes and large heads in the manner of Woodward's 'Long Heads' or 'Lilliputians' (cf. British Museum satires nos. 10604, 10889). See British Museum Satires No. 13730, &c."--British Museum online catalogue, description from probable copy of this print.
- Topics:
- Bishops.
Bottles.
Crowns.
Divorce.
Divorce--Great Britain.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102331
Fear.
Messengers.
Politicians.
Tables.
Wigs. - Topics:
- Benbow, William, 1787-1864, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81019477
Caroline,--Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain,--1768-1821.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80061163
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart,--Viscount,--1769-1822--Caricatures and cartoons.
George--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1762-1830--Caricatures and cartoons.
Humphrey, G.--(George),--1773-1831?--Ownership.
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson,--Earl of,--1770-1828--Caricatures and cartoons.
Manners-Sutton, Charles,--1755-1828--Caricatures and cartoons.
Sidmouth, Henry Addington,--Viscount,--1757-1844--Caricatures and cartoons. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1820.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1820. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- George Humphrey shop album.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Orbis Record:
- 13862602
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr35163
- OID:
- 16816955
- PID:
- digcoll:4771952
