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1. [Medallion portraits of the Duke of York, Mary Anne Clarke, Elizabeth Taylor, Captain Huxley Sandon, and "Cupid the Arbitrator of promotions"] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1809]
- Call Number:
- 53 C599 S809
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print shows a design in five numbered ovals, with a central medallion portrait atop a pillar featuring the Duke of York ("The Aga"), surrounded by four smaller medallions featuring a portrait of Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke ("Fatima pinning up a new list"), Mrs. Clarke's confidante and coauthor of her memoirs, Elizabeth Taylor ("Tailoriska"), Captain Huxley Sandon, who testified as a witness at the Duke of York's rial in 1809 ("Captn. Sandonasso"), and emblematical design showing "Cupid the Arbitrator of promotions", wearing an officer's bicorne hat, holding a sword in one hand and a bishop's miter in the other, and seated beside a cornucopia of coins; at the foot of the design is the head of Medusa crowned with serpents
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger., Illustration to the satirical piece "The trial of Fatima Clarkis. A fragment of an oriental tale", by "Barnaby Sketchwell", which concerned the 1809 trial of the Duke of York, the king's second son and commander-in-chief of the army, for his alleged involvement in the sale of commissions by his former mistress, Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke., Plate from: Sketchwell, B. London characters, or, Fashions and customs, of the present century. London : Printed for the booksellers in Bond-street ..., 1809, v. 2, facing page 317., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Lettered below image: 1. The Aga. 2. Fatima pinning up a new list. 3. Tailoriska. 4. Captn. Sandonasso. 5. Cupid the Arbitrator of promotions., "Vide, page 317"--Lower right., and Mounted on recto of first front flyleaf.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Taylor, Elizabeth, active 1800, Sandon, Huxley, and Cupid (Roman deity),
- Subject (Topic):
- Medusa (Greek mythology), Mistresses, Adultery, Scandals, Columns, Cornucopias, Coins, Daggers & swords, and Miters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Medallion portraits of the Duke of York, Mary Anne Clarke, Elizabeth Taylor, Captain Huxley Sandon, and "Cupid the Arbitrator of promotions"] [graphic].
