Our fat friend going to roost [graphic].
- Creator:
- Marshall, John, Junior, active 1820, printmaker.
- Copyright Date:
- [12 December 1820]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.7 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 23.4 x 35.9 cm
- Notes:
- Later state; publisher's street address "24 Little St. Martins Lane" has been scored through and partially burnished from plate but is still legible at end of imprint statement. For an earlier state with unmodified imprint, see no. 14017 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image. - Abstract:
- "The King, dead drunk and much dishevelled, is carried to bed by three fat and tipsy peeresses, wearing coronets; the foremost, who supports his legs, probably Lady Conyngham (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13847), says: "I'm as great as the Queen." The other two, one flourishing a candle, the other a full glass, sing: "We'll drown her in the bowl the bowl" [cf. British Museum Satires No. 12181]. Behind them is a table with decanters and a melon; a bottle is in the King's chair; broken bottles lie on the floor. On the right is the bed; in a chamber-pot are papers: 'The Queens Affair' and 'State Papers'."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Topics:
- Adultery.
Alcoholic beverages.
Beds.
Bottles.
Chairs.
Chamber pots.
Crowns.
Documents.
Drinking vessels.
Intoxication.
Melons.
Tables. - Topics:
- Caroline,--Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain,--1768-1821.
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham,--Marchioness,---1861--Caricatures and cartoons.
George--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1762-1830--Caricatures and cartoons.
Humphrey, G.--(George),--1773-1831?--Ownership.
Marshall, John, Junior, active 1820, publisher. - 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:
- 13874173
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr35202
- OID:
- 16816982
- PID:
- digcoll:4771980
