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- Published / Created:
- [approximately February 1809]
- Call Number:
- 53 C599 S809
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Duke of York sits on a settee with a courtesan on each knee, Mrs. Clarke (left) and (presumably) Mrs. Carey (right). One foot rests on large volumes of 'Army Accompts'; by the other is a smaller book: 'Ovid Art of Love'. A chair is overturned; the Duke's (broken) sword transfixes a paper: 'Promotions, My Foot Boy' [Carter, see British Museum Satires No. 11223], 'Foster 200 ... 150, Smalcroft200....' [see British Museum Satires No. 11227]. On a round table are decanters, fruit, a stand of jelly-glasses. Above the Duke hangs a picture of the Prodigal Son watching swine at a trough, inscribed: 'I will Arise and Go To my Fa[ther]'. Mrs. Clarke, unnoticed by the Duke, makes a sign to Wardle (right) who enters the room holding out a paper: 'The Duty which I Owe to my Country is Paramount to Every Other Concideration' [the tenor of the opening of his speech of 27 Jan. attacking the Duke). He is followed by a crowd of shadowy figures carrying a gibbet, an axe, and a statue of Justice."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Beggars opera : Act 2, Scene 1
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted opposite page 14.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833, and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Courtesans, Adultery, Sofas, Books, Chairs, Daggers & swords, Tables, Bottles, Fruit, Chandeliers, Pictures, Doors & doorways, Axes, Gallows, Sculpture, and Justice
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Beggars opera Act 2, Scene I. [graphic]