The general toast [graphic].
- Published/Created:
- [London]
Published by S.W. Fores October 20, 1786 at the Caricature Warehouse, No.3 Piccadilly
[20 October 1786] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching & engraving with stipple, hand-colored, on laid paper ; sheet 30 x 24 cm.
- Notes:
- Title engraved below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
John Bull Prints; February 1985; Acquisitions no.: 985-2-5-7. - Abstract:
- Three oval designs, two above with a larger one below, illustrating three satirical toasts: Honor and honesty; Love and loyalty; Fitz and good company. In the first, a man sits at a table, in his hand is a cup for rolling dice and on the table some coins and a playing card (the knave of clubs). In the second image (upper right) a man, pen in hand, writes a letter "No. 45 To the ...", on the table a book entitled "Essay on woman". In the image at the bottom, a couple (George IV and Mrs. Fitzherbert) embrace; on the table in front of the pair is a book "Morris's songs."
- Associated Names:
- Fores, S. W. [Publisher]
- Topics:
- Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797 - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings -- England -- London -- 1786
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1786 - 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:
- 786.10.20.05
- Orbis Record:
- 7779654
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr06076
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 10728202
- PID:
- digcoll:550762
