A montage of images with the portrait of the Duke of Cumberland in the center. The theme is the defeat of the Young Pretender at the Battle of Culloden. In the upper left corner is an image of a broadside ballad, 'A Loyal Song', sung by Mr. Beard at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Over it is superimposed a playing card of Jack of clubs in Scottish dress looking wistfully towards the Duke. Below, partially under the Duke's portait is an image of the Devil drawing the Scots caught in his net towards a hill on top of which stands the 'triple tree', i.e., the gallows, decorated with a royal crown at each corner. Beneath this image is another, showing the British cavalry, well equipped and healthy, pursuing the Scots on bony horses. Partially covering that image, at the bottom of the plate, is a smaller, allegorical representation of Britannia and Liberty pointing to a beehive and a temple of Concord. The last image, in top right of plate, shows the British army marching in a parade. Eight lines of verse, enclosed in a vignette, below the medley, begin as follows: Britons, behold the Royal Youth, 'tis he who fights your battles , sets your country free ...
Alternative Title:
Duke triumphant
Description:
Title engraved above image., Tentatively attributed to George Bickham the elder in an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 6d.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Matted to 61 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 and Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746, and Scots
'A picture by Hogarth, showing a performance of Dryden's play 'The Indian Emperor; or, the Conquest of Mexico' which took place in spring 1732 in the house of John Conduitt, before the Duke of Cumberland, who stands on the left with the Princesses Mary and Louisa beside him; the Duke of Richmond is shown in the left foreground, leaning over his wife's chair, while Lady Deloraine, sitting beside her, bends forward towards her daughters; the Earl of Pomfret, Duke of Montague and Tom Hill stand on the far left; the performers are Lord Sempster as Cortez, Lady Caroline Lenox as Cydaria, Lady Sophia Fermor as Almeria, and Miss Catherine Conduitt, afterwards Lady Symington, as Alibech; Dr. Desaguiliers is shown consulting a book at the back of the stage.'--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Conquest of Mexico
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Not in Nichols's book., and On page 220 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1792, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 and Conduitt, John, 1688-1737,
'A picture by Hogarth, showing a performance of Dryden's play 'The Indian Emperor; or, the Conquest of Mexico' which took place in spring 1732 in the house of John Conduitt, before the Duke of Cumberland, who stands on the left with the Princesses Mary and Louisa beside him; the Duke of Richmond is shown in the left foreground, leaning over his wife's chair, while Lady Deloraine, sitting beside her, bends forward towards her daughters; the Earl of Pomfret, Duke of Montague and Tom Hill stand on the far left; the performers are Lord Sempster as Cortez, Lady Caroline Lenox as Cydaria, Lady Sophia Fermor as Almeria, and Miss Catherine Conduitt, afterwards Lady Symington, as Alibech; Dr. Desaguiliers is shown consulting a book at the back of the stage.'--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Conquest of Mexico
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 49 x 61 cm., Separate sheet (7.6 x 19 cm) with Horace Walpole's manuscript notes mounted below print., and No. 18 in the Catalogue of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1792, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 and Conduitt, John, 1688-1737,
