The morning after marriage, or, A scene on the Continent [graphic] / plenipo Georgy fecit.

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. April 5th, 1788, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt
[5 April 1788]

Copyright Date:

[5 April 1788]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & stipple engraving on wove paper ; sheet 40.3 x 49.2 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7298
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 96
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive acco

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Probably a reissue; the final digit '8' in '1788' in imprint appears to have been altered from '6,' and the publisher's street address seems to have been burnished and re-etched. See British Museum catalogue.
Companion print to: "Wife & no wife, or, A trip to the Continent."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Morganatic marriages -- Motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Old Print Shop; March 1961; Acquisitions no.: 961-3-1-287.

Abstract:

"The Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert in the bedroom of a French inn ; a maidservant enters (left) with a tea-tray. The Prince, yawning and stretching with a dissipated air, is seated on the edge of a table; the revelry of the past night is indicated by an overturned decanter, broken wineglass, and a broken candle. Another candlestick and broken wine-glass lie on the ground, together with the Prince's top-boots. He wears slippers and his stockings are ungartered, the 'honi soit qui mal y' [pense] ribbon hanging round his leg. Mrs. Fitzherbert, seated on the bed, draws on a stocking; her garter inscribed 'Fox' lies on the ground (cf. British Museum satire 7306). The bed is heavily draped with fringed curtains. The Prince's feathered hat hangs on the wall."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Scene on the Continent

Associated Names:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Holland, William, active 1782-1817 [Publisher]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Bedrooms
Draperies
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Harvey, Francis
Hats
Riviere & Son
Servants
Tableware
Taverns (Inns) -- France -- 1788

Language:

English

Genre:

Counterproofs
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1788
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1788
Stipple engravings -- England -- London -- 1788
Watermarks (Paper) -- Weatherley & Lane -- 1820

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

788.04.05.01++ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

8070908

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr06409

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10728448

PID:

digcoll:550751