"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.
Equestrian portrait of Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, riding to the left, head turned to the right, one hand holding the reins and the other gesturing with his drawn saber; a bicorne with a feather cockade on his head, in military uniform with star on his breast; a landscape with a distant city in the background
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Nicholson, W. The history of the wars occasioned by the French Revolution. London : R. Evans, 1816., Watermark: 1815., and Two impressions in the folder.
Publisher:
Published 18th of May 1815, by Richard Evans, Whites Row, Spitalfields
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827,
Equestrian portrait of Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, riding to the left, head turned to the right, one hand holding the reins and the other gesturing with his drawn saber; a bicorne with a feather cockade on his head, in military uniform with star on his breast; a landscape with a distant city in the background
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Nicholson, W. The history of the wars occasioned by the French Revolution. London : R. Evans, 1816., 1 print : etching with engraving and stipple ; sheet 22.8 x 34.5 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Bound in after page [28].
Publisher:
Published 18th of May 1815, by Richard Evans, Whites Row, Spitalfields
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827,
Portrait of Mrs. Carey; whole length, reclining to the left on a couch; elbow resting on a cushion; wearing a loose collared gown with tassels hanging from the front
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Carey another York beauty
Description:
Title etched below image., Unsigned, but probably the work of M.N. Bate. The companion print "Mrs. Clarke, the York beauty," likewise published by William Holland in 1809, bears the signature "drawn & engraved by Bate." See: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 440, no. 1. See also: British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1867,1214.613., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Tipped in at recto of second rear flyleaf.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1, 1809, by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street
"Portrait of Mary Anne Clarke; bust length, looking to left; wearing lace veil, three string necklace; and brooch at chest; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Lady's monthly museum. London : Vernor & Hood, new ser. v. 6 (1809)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J. Whatman 1807., Window mounted to 25 x 20 cm., and Mounted opposite page 22.
"Mrs. Clarke, in a two-wheeled dog-cart, drives two asses tandem: the leader has the head of the Duke of York, the wheeler that of Wardle; the former looks round, kicking the latter violently. Beside her sits Wright, vulgarly smart, holding his bill headed Col Wardle to T Wright. Items follow, the total being £300; below this figure is 200, scored through and not allowed. She flourishes her whip, saying: "Altho I dont keep a barouche of my own, "I've a fine stud of Asses and They're all the Ton [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10638] Come up Neddy's Now you shall see how I manage my Ponies, I can turn them as easy as I can myself the leader Fred I have been flogging lately, & he has taken to kick this poor Devil Gwilly most unmercifully I have but lately brore [sic] him into the Shafts. Wright turns to her, saying, Aye Aye. you have done Wright. Behind the dog-cart canters a third ass, branded D, and ridden by a young military officer, with a letter in his pocket: To Cap D. He says: Come up Dowley! I hope I shall soon be admitted to a more favored situation; I have been in waiting long enough. Mrs. Clarke drives from a corner-house inscribed Kings Road, her house in Westbourne Terrace, see British Museum Satires No. 11238."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text following title: Vide Chapter of Donkies. If it was'nt for asses pray what would she do. Verse 5th., and Bound in between pages 6 and 7.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 10th, 1809, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833, and Wright, Francis
Subject (Topic):
Mistresses, Carriages & coaches, Donkeys, Kicking, Whips, Military officers, and British
Portrait of Mary Anne Clarke; whole length, reclining to the right on a couch, head turned slightly left; index finger of her right hand pressed against her forehead, holding a book in her left hand; wearing a loose fitting gown
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Bound in opposite page [5].
Publisher:
Pubd. by E. Walker, No. 7 Cornhill, London
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827.
"Mrs. Clarke stands, wearing a grotesquely long pair of breeches belonging to the Duke of York. The empty pockets hang inside out, and she holds them out, saying, "A Fig for such Breeches! there's nothing in them!!" On a chair lies the blue pelisse which she wore in the Commons (see British Museum Satires No. 11225); the Duke's sword is against the chair."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another version of the same design
Description:
Title etched below image., Another version, with identical text and only minor differences in the design, of a print attributed to Charles Williams. Cf. No. 11278 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8. See also: British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.7784., Publication line is pseudonymous., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Bound in opposite page 26.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1809 by T. Tickle, Duke's Place
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827.
Subject (Topic):
Mistresses, Adultery, Trousers, Chairs, and Daggers & swords
"Above, Mrs. Clarke stands on a round dais, under a canopy, receiving her clients. These are headed by six military officers; the foremost makes a sweeping bow, cocked hat in hand. Next is a fat parson holding a money-bag inscribed 800; behind is an obese doctor, with three other elderly men. She says to them: Ye Captains and ye Colonels-ye parsons wanting place, Advice I'll give ye gratis and think upon your case, If there is possibility, for you I'll raise the dust, But then you must excuse me-if I serve myself the first. Below, Mrs. Clarke, much décolletée, looks from an open ground-floor window of a London house, to see a fashionably dressed man, Taylor, walking towards her holding a sealed packet. He looks over his shoulder at a yokel with a cudgel, who asks: I say Measter Shoe-maker where be you going in such a woundy hurry? Taylor answers: Dont speak to me fellow you should never pry into State affairs. Mrs. Clarke says: Open the door John here comes the Ambassador Now for the dear delightful Answer. Behind the yokel, evidently John Bull, is his dog. On the right is a house with a door-plate inscribed Mrs Weston."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Clarkes levee
Description:
Title of top design from text above image; title of bottom design from text below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Mounted to 44 x 29 cm., and Watermark: E & P.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 20th, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Courtesans, Mistresses, Military officers, British, Clergy, Bags, Money, Windows, Staffs (Sticks), and Dogs
"Above, Mrs. Clarke stands on a round dais, under a canopy, receiving her clients. These are headed by six military officers; the foremost makes a sweeping bow, cocked hat in hand. Next is a fat parson holding a money-bag inscribed 800; behind is an obese doctor, with three other elderly men. She says to them: Ye Captains and ye Colonels-ye parsons wanting place, Advice I'll give ye gratis and think upon your case, If there is possibility, for you I'll raise the dust, But then you must excuse me-if I serve myself the first. Below, Mrs. Clarke, much décolletée, looks from an open ground-floor window of a London house, to see a fashionably dressed man, Taylor, walking towards her holding a sealed packet. He looks over his shoulder at a yokel with a cudgel, who asks: I say Measter Shoe-maker where be you going in such a woundy hurry? Taylor answers: Dont speak to me fellow you should never pry into State affairs. Mrs. Clarke says: Open the door John here comes the Ambassador Now for the dear delightful Answer. Behind the yokel, evidently John Bull, is his dog. On the right is a house with a door-plate inscribed Mrs Weston."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Clarkes levee
Description:
Title of top design from text above image; title of bottom design from text below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching ; sheet 16.9 x 22.8 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Imperfect; only top image "Mrs. Clarks Levee" is present, with bottom image (including imprint statement) having been trimmed away from sheet., and Mounted opposite page 27.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 20th, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Courtesans, Mistresses, Military officers, British, Clergy, Bags, Money, Windows, Staffs (Sticks), and Dogs