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- Creator:
- Marshall, John, Junior, active 1820, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 December 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 28. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The King, dead drunk and much dishevelled, is carried to bed by three fat and tipsy peeresses, wearing coronets; the foremost, who supports his legs, probably Lady Conyngham (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13847), says: "I'm as great as the Queen." The other two, one flourishing a candle, the other a full glass, sing: "We'll drown her in the bowl the bowl" [cf. British Museum Satires No. 12181]. Behind them is a table with decanters and a melon; a bottle is in the King's chair; broken bottles lie on the floor. On the right is the bed; in a chamber-pot are papers: 'The Queens Affair' and 'State Papers'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Later state; publisher's street address "24 Little St. Martins Lane" has been scored through and partially burnished from plate but is still legible at end of imprint statement. For an earlier state with unmodified imprint, see no. 14017 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., and Mounted on page 28 of: George Humphrey shop album.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Dec. 12, 1820, by John Marshall Junr
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Intoxication, Alcoholic beverages, Bottles, Drinking vessels, Tables, Chairs, Beds, Melons, Chamber pots, Documents, and Crowns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Our fat friend going to roost [graphic].