Barataria [graphic] / JS [monogram] f.

Published/Created:

[London]
Publd. 11th March 1789 by Thos Cornell, Bruton Street
[11 March 1789]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 30 x 35 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7517

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Ireland & the Irish -- Mythology: Tantalus -- Literature: allusion to Cervantes, Don Quixote -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers.
Suckling; 1956.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis

Abstract:

"he Prince of Wales is seated in a magnificent dining-hall before a bare table. The Duke of Leinster (right) offers him across the table a dish of 'Potatoes from Leinster'; the Prince extends his arms to take them, but turns his head to look at the forbidding Thurlow, dressed as a doctor, who stands (left) on his right. Thurlow points authoritatively to the potatoes with the head of his cane, saying, "Take back the Irish Potatoes". The Prince says with a peevish expression: "If I must not have the roast Beef [the English Regency] let me have ye Potatoes Doctor I have paid for them". On the extreme right, behind Leinster, Sheridan, with a melancholy expression, tries to take a dish containing a sirloin from a beefeater, who says, "This belongs to my Master Sir." In the foreground (left) Weltje (cf. BMSat 7509), dressed as a cook, stands looking at the Prince, his hands clasped in dismay, saying, "By Got now we sail not heb our Desert". Two colonnades of pillars recede in perspective behind the Prince; on the plinth of one is a relief of Tantalus vainly trying to drink from the vessel at his lips. In the foreground (centre) are two dogs coupled together, one is Burke, in spectacles, looking hungrily at the bare table, the other is Fox, turning his back on the table and straining away from Burke. The Prince's chair is surmounted by his coronet and feathers. On a chain round Leinster's neck hangs a crowned Irish harp attached to the order of St. Patrick with its significant motto, 'Quis separa[bit].'"--British Museum online catalogue.

Associated Names:

Sayers, James, 1748-1823 [Printmaker]
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792 [Publisher]

Topics:

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Fox, Charles James, 1749-
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810

Language:

English

Genre:

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

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

789.03.11.01+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

7721317

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr06624

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10731100

PID:

digcoll:552774