The Regency twelfth cake not cut up [graphic] : "And all the people rejoiced and said 'Long live the King'" / JS [monogram] f[ecit].
- Published/Created:
- [London]
Publ. by Thos Cornell
19 Febry. 1789 - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching, drypoint & aquatint on laid paper ; plate mark 24.8 x 32.6 cm, on sheet 28 x 38 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Quotation from Sheridan's School for scandal.
Lewis Walpole Library: Identifications of Fox and Sheridan added in contemporary hand below the plate.
Parsons; February 1933.
From an album of 12 prints with the armorial bookplate of Thomas Philip Robinson, Earl de Grey, 1781-1859.
Watermark: Initials L V [G], obscured by design. - Abstract:
- "Fox and his party (three quarter length) surround a Twelfth Night cake which Weltje was about to cut into portions. The cause of a sudden check to this proceeding is indicated by a broad ray of light (which strikes the cake and the bystanders) and by a scroll: 'The King shall enjoy his own again'. Weltje stands on the left, his arms extended towards the scroll, saying, "Den by Got we sail heb no Cake"; he drops his knife. He and Sheridan are the most agitated of the party: Sheridan with a face of despair looks up, saying, '"Now our Ruin is complete" School for Scandal'. (He is Joseph Surface as in BMSat 7510, &c; the actual words are "Tis now complete!') Fox stands disconsolately, his hands in his pockets, his back to the ray. Burke (right), his arms folded, scowls up at the ray. Behind these three Stormont, Loughborough, and Sandwich (on the extreme right) regard it with less pronounced despair. Portland stands behind the cake, frowning fixedly. The centre of the cake is ornamented with the Prince of Wales's coronet and feathers (as are Weltje's buttons); on the centre feather is poised a crown. The cake has been marked in sections where it is to be cut, these are inscribed 'Ist Lord Admy' [Sandwich had been considered for the post and also for that of Ambassador to France], 'Secrety State foreign' [Fox], 'Secrety State home' [Stormont], 'Paymar Genl' [Burke], 'Ist Comm Board Control', and 'Treas Navy' (Sheridan's arm extends across this, the place intended for him, pending a transfer to the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, Sir G. Elliot, 'Life and Letters', i. 260-1). Beneath the title is etched: '"And all the People rejoiced and said "Long live the King"'."--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, 1749-1806
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn,
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Annotations (Provenance) -- 18th century
Aquatints -- England -- London -- 1789
Drypoints -- England -- London -- 1789
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1789
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1789 - 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:
- 789.02.19.01+ Impression 1
- Orbis Record:
- 7721170
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr06614
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 10731095
- PID:
- digcoll:553118
