The modern Egbert, or, The king of kings [graphic].

Edition:

[2nd state].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. by Charles Bronwn [sic], Strand
Jany. 8, 1789

Copyright Date:

Jany. 8, 1789.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.6 x 34.7 cm, on sheet 27 x 43 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7479A
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, vol. 1, page 243

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue and Grego.
State with additions to the plate.
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-5-116.
Watermark: L Taylor.
Mounted to 32 x 45 cm.

Abstract:

"Pitt as the modern Egbert (king of the West Saxons, d. 839) is rowed by four kings, and tows behind him a small boat in which the Prince of Wales is seated, his wrists and ankles chained. Pitt, who steers, is seated high in the stern of the 'Treasury Barge', he wears a combined coronet and mitre, and says to his four oarsmen, 'Pull together Boys'. They are Thurlow (stroke), Buckingham, Dundas, and Richmond (bow). All wear crowns on their heads and badges like those of watermen on their sleeves. Thurlow, stripped to the waist, his badge a rose, says, "Damme! I've got precedence of the Young Lion"; he rows with the Chancellor's mace. Buckingham (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), an Irish harp on his coat-sleeve, rows with a shillelagh, saying, "I'll answer for the Shelalagh without Authority". Dundas, wearing a thistle badge, rows with a long spoon, saying, "He shall remember old Nemo impune". Richmond, wearing a fleur-de-lis badge (he was due d'Aubigny), rows with a cannon (emblem of the ordnance, cf. BMSat 6921, &c), saying, "We'll shew him Gallic Faith." They row on one side of the boat only. A large flag in the stern of Pitt's boat has his crest (reversed), a stork grasping an anchor, with the motto: 'Devil take the Right P.W. [Prince William]'. The Prince wears a coronet with three feathers; he says, "I feel not for myself but for my country". His boat flies a flag with Pitt's crest above a flag with the royal arms. In the background is the river bank with trees, a church (the House of Commons) flying a (blank) flag (right), and (left) the dome of St. Paul's."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

King of kings

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1789
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1789

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

789.01.08.01+

Orbis Record:

7716306

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr06592

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10731078

PID:

digcoll:550745