The devil to pay the wife metamorphos'd, or, Neptune reposing after fording the Jordan. [graphic]

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Title: The devil to pay the wife metamorphos'd, or, Neptune reposing after fording the Jordan. [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, printmaker.
Published / Created: [24 October 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Octr. 24th 1791 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Eleven lines in 3 columns quoted below design: ten thousand transports wait ...
Numbered '19' in lower right corner of plate.
Reissue of No. 7908 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedrooms -- Furniture: royal beds -- Chairs -- Stools -- Female costume: corset -- Naval uniforms: Duke of Clarence's uniform -- Sleeping -- Expressions of speech: jordan -- Allusion to Richard Ford, ca 1759-1806, Mrs. Jordan's husband -- Literature: quotation from Charles Coffey's (d. 1745) The devil to pay, or, The wives metamorphosed.
Provenance: Suckling.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 27 x 37 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816
Subject (Topic): Chamber pots
Subjects: William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 > Caricatures and cartoons
Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Chamber pots
England > 1791
England > London > 1791

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