The celebrated Clark, exalted to the pulpit by the humility of a royal bishop [graphic].

Copyright Date:

[22 April 1809]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 35 cm, on sheet 26.4 x 38 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/lwlpr37984

Notes:

Four lines verse below title: Who for the tricks he has done in the dark, is content to be his darling Clark's clerk. And to cure her from being more love sick, has given her a royal dukes bishopric.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top.
Title etched below image.

Abstract:

"Mrs. Clarke auctions commissions from a rostrum to a crowd of bidders, while the Duke of York acts as her clerk. All are unconscious of a net in which they are enclosed, and with which the Devil flies off into flames (right). Mrs. Clarke (right), in profile to the left, with raised hammer, holds out a paper headed Commission. She says: Going for no more than £500 a Commission Positively worth 5000. An officer, probably Dowler, see British Museum satires no. 11253, holds out his arms towards her, saying, my dear dear dear Angel Knock it down to me or I am ruin'd. Another says: Let the good Bishop [the Duke, see British Museum satires no. 11227] have the Game & we my Boy will have the Cream. The other applicants are in civilian dress; one says to the bidder: my dear fellow dont be so anxious for depend upon it these tricks will be Found out & all will be Lost. The Duke of York, in uniform, records the bids in a book, his pen resting on the figure 500. He says Thus am I content to record & ratify the Destruction of the Army, my Country & myself, rather than loose my dear DARLING to [cf. British Museum satires no. 11228]. The Devil looks over his shoulder at Mrs. Clarke to say with a baleful grin: Going, Going Gon you may now say, for I have You tight enough my dear Honey."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Auctions.
Corruption--Great Britain.
Devil.
Military officers--British.
Nets.
Political corruption--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Sex--Political aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Topics:

Clarke, Mary Anne,--1776?-1852--Caricatures and cartoons.
Frederick Augustus,--Prince, Duke of York and Albany,--1763-1827--Caricatures and cartoons.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1809.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1809.

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

Call Number:

809.04.22.01+

Orbis Record:

14576052

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37984

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 11317

OID:

16846266

PID:

digcoll:4826116