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10. The bridal-night [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [18 May 1797]
Call Number:: 797.05.18.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "An elaborate design. The Prince of Würtemberg, grotesquely corpulent, conducts his bride in the procession (right to left) towards the bridal chamber which is led by the King and Queen. George III, plainly dressed and wearing a hat, partly concealed by a pillar, hurries forward; in each hand is a candle-stick holding a guttering candle-end (cf. BMSat 8117). The Queen, covered with jewels and her face hidden by a poke-bonnet, carries a steaming bowl of 'Posset'. On the back of the Prince's coat are slung five ribbons from which dangle the jewels of orders; three garters encircle his leg; a star decorates the bag of his wig. The Princess gazes at him from behind her fan. Round her waist is the ribbon of an order, to which is attached a jewel containing a whole length miniature of her husband, which exaggerates his corpulence. Behind the Princess is a group of princes: the Prince of Wales, in regimentals, is fat and sulky. Prince William of Gloucester stands with splayed-out feet as in BMSat 8716. The Duke of Clarence (caricatured) puts a hand on the right arm of the Prince of Wales. Behind is the more handsome head of the Duke of York. These four heads are clever juxtapositions of variations on the family features. Behind them is the grotesque profile of the Stadholder with closed eyes. The sharp features of Lady Derby tower above the Stadholder. Next him is the Princess of Wales, not caricatured. Two princesses hold up their sister's train, and, behind, a sea of feathered headdresses recedes in perspective under a lighted chandelier. Salisbury (left), the Lord Chamberlain, standing stiffly in profile to the right, much caricatured, with wand and key as in BMSat 8649, holds open the door through which the King is about to pass. Pitt, on the outskirts of the procession, carries a sack inscribed '£80,000' (the amount of the Princess's dowry). On the wall is a large picture, inscribed 'Le Triomphe de l'Amour', of an elephant with a little cupid sitting on his neck blowing a trumpet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Marriages: Prince of Würtemberg to Princess Charlotte Augusta, May 17, 1797 -- Beverages: posset -- Furnishings: carpets -- Pictures amplifying subject: a cupid riding an elephant -- Male dress: court dress., and Mounted to 31 x 46 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 18th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
Subject (Name):: Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1754-1816, Charlotte, Queen, Consort of Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1766-1828, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834, William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, Derby, Elizabeth Farren Stanley, Countess of, 1759 or 62-1829, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):: Marriage and Lighting
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The bridal-night [graphic]

11. The court card, or, All trumps 1756 [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1756]
Call Number:: 756.00.00.73
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: All trumps 1756
Description:: Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '80' in upper right corner., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., and Reversed copy of No. 3465 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, 1713-1759, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806, Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Henry Benedict Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York, 1725-1807, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The court card, or, All trumps 1756 [graphic].

12. The frogs rejecting their king [graphic].

Creator:: Cawse, John, 1779-1862, printmaker
Published / Created:: Octr. 42 [i.e., 24], 1799.
Call Number:: 799.10.24.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of text below image: At first they regarded their monarch with great reverence, but perceiving his tame and peacable disposition they at length treated him with the utmost contempt. Esops fables., and Temporary local subject terms: Dutchmen -- Flags: French flag -- British flag -- Female dress: hats -- Bonnets rouges -- Frogs -- Literature: reference to Aesop's Fables.
Publisher:: Pubd by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The frogs rejecting their king [graphic].

13. The man of feeling in search of indispensibles a scene at the little French milleners / [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [12 February 1800] and [printed 1849]
Call Number:: 800.02.12.01.2+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Plate numbered '41' in lower right corner., Two lines of text below title: A number of disputes having arisen in the beau monde respecting the exact situation of the ladies indispensibles ..., State with a plate number added, Cf .No. 9577 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: milliner's shop -- Trades: milliners -- Female dress: undergarments -- Placards: Magazin de Lancastre.
Publisher:: Pubd Feby 12th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):: William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The man of feeling in search of indispensibles a scene at the little French milleners / [graphic]

14. The orangerie, or, The Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of planting vide the visions in Hampton Bower / [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [16 September 1796]
Call Number:: 796.09.16.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "William V of Orange, a naked fat Cupid, lies on his back asleep on a low plateau of grass sprinkled with flowers. He clasps a spade in his folded hands; his shoulders rest against two large money-bags, padlocked and inscribed '24,000,000 Ducats'. He has been planting orange-trees, and these surround him, of varying sizes, in pots and in tubs; the oranges are the heads of infants, all with his own features. Dream-figures float towards him on clouds, all women in an advanced state of pregnancy. Behind him (left) floats a milk-woman, her yoke across her shoulders, her pail on her head. Next advances, full-face, a fat Billingsgate woman, her basket of fish on her head. These two appear to be shouting at the sleeping Cupid. From the right approaches a housemaid carrying a mop; behind her three haymakers, holding rake or pitchfork, approach together, followed by serried ranks of country women all wearing straw hats."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of planting
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Gardens -- Potted orange trees -- Reference to Hampton Court -- Money: bags of money -- Women: Billingsgate fish wife -- Milk-woman -- Housemaid -- Haymakers -- Country women -- Pregnancy -- Cupid.
Publisher:: Pubd. Septr. 16th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):: William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The orangerie, or, The Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of planting vide the visions in Hampton Bower / [graphic]

15. The reception in Holland [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [8 September 1799]
Call Number:: 799.09.08.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Bonaparte (much caricatured), standing precariously on a 'Dutch Cheese', is attacked by the allies. Austria and Russia pull from his thin leg a large clumsy boot, consisting of a map of 'Italy'; coins (French plunder) pour from the boot, on which 'Naples', 'Rome', 'Florence', and other geographical divisions are indicated. Austria is a fierce hussar, smoking a pipe, on his cap is the Habsburg eagle; he tugs at the boot, the Russian bear (on the extreme left) assists him, its paws clasping his waist. A ferocious Turk holds Bonaparte by the nose and raises a scimitar whose blade, inscribed 'St Jean d'Acre', drips blood; across his shoulders are strung bleeding ears and noses to which Bonaparte's is to be added. A sailor (right), representing the British Navy, seizes Bonaparte from behind; in his hat are ribbons inscribed 'Nelson', 'Duncan', 'Bridport'. A fat Dutchman on the extreme right, with the blunt profile of the Prince of Orange, tugs at the cheese in order to dislodge Bonaparte; he kneels on a paper, 'Secret Expedition'. Bonaparte's uniform is ragged, his left foot is bare, but in each hand is a blood-stained dagger. In the background (right) tiny figures (probably Dutch) dance hand-in-hand round a bonfire in which burns a 'Tree of Liberty', a bonnet-rouge on a pole, cf. BMSat 9214."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched at top of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Dutch soldiers -- Holland -- Ships: English men-of-war -- Flags: The Hague -- Frogs -- Windmills.
Publisher:: Pubd. Septr. 8th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):: William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The reception in Holland [graphic]

16. The wedding night [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: May 20, 1797.
Call Number:: 797.05.20.02.1+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Printseller's statement following the imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Marriages: Prince of Würtemberg to Princess Charlotte Augusta, May 17, 1797 -- Beverages: cock broth -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Dress: court dress -- Pictures amplifying subjects: Bacchus riding an elephant -- Cupid: Prince of Orange as sleeping Cupid., and Watermark: Portal & Bridges.
Publisher:: Pubd by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1754-1816, Charlotte, Queen, Consort of Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1766-1828, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834, William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Derby, Elizabeth Farren Stanley, Countess of, 1759 or 62-1829
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The wedding night [graphic].

17. The wedding night [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: May 20, 1797.
Call Number:: 797.05.20.02.2+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Printmaker from earlier state. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9015., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's statement following the imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] len [sic] out for the evening., Reworked state, with an additional figure riding the elephant. Cf. No. 9015 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Marriages: Prince of Würtemberg to Princess Charlotte Augusta, May 17, 1797 -- Beverages: cock broth -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Dress: court dress -- Pictures amplifying subjects: Bacchus riding an elephant -- Cupid: Prince of Orange as sleeping Cupid., and Matted to 47 x 62 cm.; printmaker's name printed on mat below image. Subjects identified by numbers with a key printed on mat below image.
Publisher:: Pubd by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1754-1816, Charlotte, Queen, Consort of Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1766-1828, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834, William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Smith Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Derby, Elizabeth Farren Stanley, Countess of, 1759 or 62-1829
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The wedding night [graphic].

18. [Prince of Orange] [graphic]

Published / Created:: [1801?]
Call Number:: Quarto 75 D569 812
Collection Title:: Leaf 78. Characatures by Dighton.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The Prince of Orange in old-fashioned uniform, heavily gold-laced, stands in profile to the left, looking up, both hands resting on a tall cane. He wears a cocked hat, long pigtail, aiguillettes, a star, a long sword, and clumsy jack-boots. He has not the heavy somnolent appearance of Gillray's portraits, cf. British Museum Satires No. 9065, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from British Museum catalogue., Possible signature "D12[?]" in lower right, partly scored through. The British Museum catalogue gives a tentative attribution to either Denis or Richard Dighton., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Leaf 78 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806
Subject (Topic):: Military uniforms, Princes, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Prince of Orange] [graphic]