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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [February 1821]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A section cut from British Museum Satires No. 11888, with alterations. The King (apart from the removal of the coral and bells), Lord and Lady Hertford, and Yarmouth are as before, though the former Hertfords now stand for Conynghams (see British Museum Satires No. 13847), and Yarmouth (presumably) becomes Lord Francis Conyngham. The other adjacent figures are removed. The pavilion is still inscribed 'He[rtford] Nursery'. The design extends from the middle of the left support of the pavilion, which is however removed, except for the head and shoulder of the woman supporting the drapery, to the right edge of the right support of the pavilion, which is as before, with satyrs, infant Bacchus, and nude women; the emblem of fool's cap, &c., is unaltered. The King says to Lady Conyngham: "My dear Coney you are my life, my soul, my only Joy if business did not call me from hence--I would never leave you, what with my Wife and the Cabinet together I have no peace except in your dear arms." She answers: "Really my love you give way to fear take another glass--you have nothing to dread, we shall soon dispose of that vile woman--in my arms you are safe, continue with me at the Nursery, and we will soon form a new Cabinet if it is necessary." The antlered Lord Conyngham, grovelling on the ground behind his wife, says: "I have got into snug quarters, Lady C-- knows how to manage him--he is welcome to occupy my premises as long as he pleases.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Printed on watermarked paper., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 90 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Ld. Conyngham," "Lady Conyngham," and "George IV" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "1821" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of one line from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted below print.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, and Conyngham, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, Marquess, 1797-1876
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Nurseries (Rooms & spaces), Infants, Crowns, Draperies, Sculpture, and Bottles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Things as they are in February 1821 [graphic].