"The interior of a large church or cathedral. Burke, dressed as a Jesuit (cf. BMSat 6026), standing within a low, semicircular wall at the foot of a crucifix, marries the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert. The Prince is about to put the ring on her finger. Fox gives her away, holding her left wrist. Beside him (right) stands Weltje in back view but looking to the left at the ceremony. A napkin is under his left arm, bottles project from his coat-pockets, and the tags on his shoulder denote the liveried manservant. To the left of Fox appears the profile of George Hanger. On the left North sits, leaning against the altar wall, sound asleep, his legs outstretched. He wears his ribbon but is dressed as a coachman, his hat and whip beside him. All the men wear top-boots to suggest a runaway match. Behind the Prince in a choir seat is a row of kneeling monks who are chanting the marriage service. The crucifix is partly covered by a curtain, but the legs and feet are painfully distorted as in BMSat 6026. On the wall and pillars of the church are four framed pictures: 'David watching Bathsheba bathing', 'St. Anthony tempted by monsters', 'Eve tempting Adam with the apple', and 'Judas kissing Christ', the last being over the head of Fox."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition.
Alternative Title:
Trip to the Continent and Wife and no wife
Description:
Companion print to: "The morning after marriage, or, A scene on the Continent.", CtY-LW, Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally issued with the publication line: Publish'd by Willm. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane, London, March 27, 1786. Cf. No. 6932 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires v. 6., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Morganatic marriage of Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert -- Allusion to Bible stories: Adam and Eve -- Allusion to Bible stories: David and Bathsheba -- Allusion to Bible stories: St. Anthony tempted by monsters -- Allusion to Bible stories: Judas kissing Christ., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons., Fitzherbert, Maria Anne,--1756-1837--Caricatures and cartoons., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., George--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1762-1830--Caricatures and cartoons., Hanger, George,--1751?-1824--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher., North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792--Caricatures and cartoons., and Weltje, Louis,--1745-1810--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A very fat man draped in a sheet, his vast chin lathered, turns his eyes upwards to a thin barber who stands beside him (left), his bowl in one hand, soap in the other. Behind (left) a bald man bends over a basin, stanching a wound; and (right) the barber's man applies a flat-iron to a wig on a standing wig-block with a carved face. From the raftered ceiling hangs a lamp in a rectangular (?) paper shade inscribed: 'The Oldest Shaving Shop in London Most Mony for second Hand Wigs'. On the wall hang a bird in a cage, a print of two men, a wig. Wig-blocks, a razor, and the customer's wig lie on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue, description of lettered state.
Description:
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 257-8., Companion print to: A sufferer for decency., Date from description of lettered state in British Museum catalogue., Proof before letters; plate later published with the title "A penny barber" and imprint "London, Pubd. by Wm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street." Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7605., and Title and publisher from lettered state.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-88
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"The coffin is placed on trestles next to a four-poster bed (the deathbed of a rich man?). The lid of the coffin bears an elaborate brass plaque inscribed "Mr Gripe departed this life Ague" (last word indistinct). Arising from out of the coffin, Mr. Gripe disturbs the woman who was reading a large book (presumably a business ledger). On the ground, a soup bowl, a bottle and a glass, suggesting that she had poisoned him."--Wellcome Library online catalogue, description of a later state.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., CtY-BR, Early state, before aquatint added. For later states published by William Holland in 1795 and 1805, see Lewis Walpole Library call no. 795.07.00.02+ and Wellcome Library no. 533361i., First of two plates with the same title, both etched by Rowlandson after Wigstead; see Grego. For the second plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1947,1215.2., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of title and imprint statement., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title from later states of the plate.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher., Riviere & Son Binding., and Wigstead, Henry, artist.
