"Heading to an engraved broadside. A servants' ball in the Pavilion, the musicians in the gallery being Ministers (left to right): Sidmouth and Liverpool play a duet at a square piano, gaping at each other; Eldon blows bagpipes; Castlereagh plays a harp. George IV waltzes with a fat, plainly dressed cook; he says: "How poor a thing may do a noble office!" A black footman dances with a fat lady; another lady dances amorously with a fat footman. One courtier (Bloomfield) dances with and embraces a fat cook, another has a more elegant partner. In the foreground stands Lady Conyngham (left), distressed and alarmed, her husband's antlered profile is just behind her; both wear coronets. She says: "Ah! with his scullion! Titles & rank are my defence But what can save her insolence!" He says: "If he has turn'd up my Wife I indeed may say--[citing Wolsey] "Farewell a long farewel to all my greatness!"" The wall and gallery are patterned with Chinese figures. The verses begin: 'Releas'd from all the toils of State . . .' The 4th, 5th, 6th, and 10th of 12 verses: '"I've supp'd within my kitchen range, "But I'll descend no more;* "The scene this night I'll wholly change, "Upstairs--invite uproar. "No virtuous women visit me-- "They dread to lose their name-- "I'll condescend--with those make free "Who never blush'd with shame. "Twas wrong when C--e eat perchance, With Vassali and Bergami-- "I'll eat with Cooks, with Scullions dance-- "I can't do wrong [see British Museum Satires No. 14133], G--d d--n me." . . . And Cunning-one moved not a limb, But stood amazed with wonder! To see the K--g's disgraceful whim, And, Vow'd she'd pull 'm asunder. . . ."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Humours of the great baby at B***ht*n and Humours of the great baby at Brighton
Description:
Title etched in center of plate, below image and above verses., Printmaker attribution to Marks from the British Museum catalogue., Twelve stanzas of verse in two columns below title, beginning: Releas'd from all the toils of state, From care and sorrow free ..., Text in lower margin, beneath verses: *See Marks's caricature of "He stoops to conquer, or, R-l George sunk" [British Museum Satires No. 13210]., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 48 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Lady Conyngham," "Ld. Bloomfield," and "George IV" identified in pencil at bottom of image; figures of "Sidmouth," "Liverpool," "Eldon," and "Londonderry" idenfied in pencil above print on mounting sheet. Date "24 Jan. 1821" written in ink in lower right corner of sheet. Typed extract of ten lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pub. by J.L. Marks, No. 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Balls (Parties), Adultery, Musicians, Servants, Dance, and Antlers
"George IV and Lady Conyngham sit amorously together in a moored punt, heads together, arms enlaced. He holds a fishing-rod; hers lies across the punt. In the background is Windsor Castle. P. 13: M, for the Marchioness, lovely and round, As any the Archer had hitherto found, ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
M, for the Marchioness, lovely and round as any the archer had hitherto found ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 11 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Rosco., and Windsor Castle,
Plate 17. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 17. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The young couple are seen in a large, well-furnished room that is in a state of disorder after a night's entertainment; the Viscount is collapsed in a chair having just arrived, the clock showing 1:20 a.m. His sword lies at his feet, broken, and a bonnet hangs from his pocket, suggesting his infidelity; the lap dog sniffs at him suspiciously. The wife's evening's activities at home are suggested by the book "Hoyle on whist" open on the rug in the middle of the floor, a deck of cards on the floor below a card table in the next room, and in the foreground two violins, one with its case open, on the back of an overturned chair, suggesting the wife's own infidelity. The estate steward walks away in disgust at his apparent failure to engage either the husband or the wife in addressing the wad of bills that he has in his hands or the ledger under his arm; in his pocket he carries a pamphlet entitled "Regeneration." Through an archway, a disheveled and sleepy servant scratches his cap; the walls are decorated with paintings of religious figures
Alternative Title:
Marriage à-la-Mode, Pl. 2.
Description:
Title etched below image., State from Paulson., After the painting "Tête à Tête" in the National Gallery, London., and Plate 17 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Plate 17. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 17. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The young couple are seen in a large, well-furnished room that is in a state of disorder after a night's entertainment; the Viscount is collapsed in a chair having just arrived, the clock showing 1:20 a.m. His sword lies at his feet, broken, and a bonnet hangs from his pocket, suggesting his infidelity; the lap dog sniffs at him suspiciously. The wife's evening's activities at home are suggested by the book "Hoyle on whist" open on the rug in the middle of the floor, a deck of cards on the floor below a card table in the next room, and in the foreground two violins, one with its case open, on the back of an overturned chair, suggesting the wife's own infidelity. The estate steward walks away in disgust at his apparent failure to engage either the husband or the wife in addressing the wad of bills that he has in his hands or the ledger under his arm; in his pocket he carries a pamphlet entitled "Regeneration." Through an archway, a disheveled and sleepy servant scratches his cap; the walls are decorated with paintings of religious figures
Alternative Title:
Marriage à-la-Mode, Pl. 2.
Description:
Title etched below image., State from Paulson., After the painting "Tête à Tête" in the National Gallery, London., and Plate 17 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
The young couple are seen in a large, well-furnished room that is in a state of disorder after a night's entertainment; the Viscount is collapsed in a chair having just arrived, the clock showing 1:20 a.m. His sword lies at his feet, broken, and a bonnet hangs from his pocket, suggesting his infidelity; the lap dog sniffs at him suspiciously. The wife's evening's activities at home are suggested by the book "Hoyle on whist" open on the rug in the middle of the floor, a deck of cards on the floor below a card table in the next room, and in the foreground two violins, one with its case open, on the back of an overturned chair, suggesting the wife's own infidelity. The estate steward walks away in disgust at his apparent failure to engage either the husband or the wife in addressing the wad of bills that he has in his hands or the ledger under his arm; in his pocket he carries a pamphlet entitled "Regeneration." Through an archway, a dishevelled and sleepy servant scratches his cap; the walls are decorated with paintings of religious figures. The decor includes an elaborate ormulu clock, chinese porcelain and figures (including a Buddha), a bust of a Roman matron, old master paintings (one, evidently erotic, is screened by a curtain).
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-Mode. Plate 2
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson, and After the painting "Tête à Tête" in the National Gallery, London.
The young couple are seen in a large, well-furnished room that is in a state of disorder after a night's entertainment; the Viscount is collapsed in a chair having just arrived, the clock showing 1:20 a.m. His sword lies at his feet, broken, and a bonnet hangs from his pocket, suggesting his infidelity; the lap dog sniffs at him suspiciously. The wife's evening's activities at home are suggested by the book "Hoyle on whist" open on the rug in the middle of the floor, a deck of cards on the floor below a card table in the next room, and in the foreground two violins, one with its case open, on the back of an overturned chair, suggesting the wife's own infidelity. The estate steward walks away in disgust at his apparent failure to engage either the husband or the wife in addressing the wad of bills that he has in his hands or the ledger under his arm; in his pocket he carries a pamphlet entitled "Regeneration." Through an archway, a disheveled and sleepy servant scratches his cap; the walls are decorated with paintings of religious figures
Alternative Title:
Marriage à-la-Mode, Pl. 2.
Description:
Title etched below image., State from Paulson., After the painting "Tête à Tête" in the National Gallery, London., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Lock on wife's forehead added in ink., and On page 113 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 38.6 x 45.6 cm.
Plate 17. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 17. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The young couple are seen in a large, well-furnished room that is in a state of disorder after a night's entertainment; the Viscount is collapsed in a chair having just arrived, the clock showing 1:20 a.m. His sword lies at his feet, broken, and a bonnet hangs from his pocket, suggesting his infidelity; the lap dog sniffs at him suspiciously. The wife's evening's activities at home are suggested by the book "Hoyle on whist" open on the rug in the middle of the floor, a deck of cards on the floor below a card table in the next room, and in the foreground two violins, one with its case open, on the back of an overturned chair, suggesting the wife's own infidelity. The estate steward walks away in disgust at his apparent failure to engage either the husband or the wife in addressing the wad of bills that he has in his hands or the ledger under his arm; in his pocket he carries a pamphlet entitled "Regeneration." Through an archway, a disheveled and sleepy servant scratches his cap; the walls are decorated with paintings of religious figures
Alternative Title:
Marriage à-la-Mode, Pl. 2.
Description:
Title etched below image., State from Paulson., After the painting "Tête à Tête" in the National Gallery, London., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.3 x 46.5 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 17 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
The young couple are seen in a large, well-furnished room that is in a state of disorder after a night's entertainment; the Viscount is collapsed in a chair having just arrived, the clock showing 1:20 a.m. His sword lies at his feet, broken, and a bonnet hangs from his pocket, suggesting his infidelity; the lap dog sniffs at him suspiciously. The wife's evening's activities at home are suggested by the book "Hoyle on whist" open on the rug in the middle of the floor, a deck of cards on the floor below a card table in the next room, and in the foreground two violins, one with its case open, on the back of an overturned chair, suggesting the wife's own infidelity. The estate steward walks away in disgust at his apparent failure to engage either the husband or the wife in addressing the wad of bills that he has in his hands or the ledger under his arm; in his pocket he carries a pamphlet entitled "Regeneration." Through an archway, a disheveled and sleepy servant scratches his cap; the walls are decorated with paintings of religious figures
Alternative Title:
Marriage à-la-Mode, Pl. 2.
Description:
Title etched below image., State from Paulson., After the painting "Tête à Tête" in the National Gallery, London., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Image 'touched': Stray hair and lock added in ink, presumably by Hogarth.
The young couple are seen in a large, well-furnished room that is in a state of disorder after a night's entertainment; the Viscount is collapsed in a chair having just arrived, the clock showing 1:20 a.m. His sword lies at his feet, broken, and a bonnet hangs from his pocket, suggesting his infidelity; the lap dog sniffs at him suspiciously. The wife's evening's activities at home are suggested by the book "Hoyle on whist" open on the rug in the middle of the floor, a deck of cards on the floor below a card table in the next room, and in the foreground two violins, one with its case open, on the back of an overturned chair, suggesting the wife's own infidelity. The estate steward walks away in disgust at his apparent failure to engage either the husband or the wife in addressing the wad of bills that he has in his hands or the ledger under his arm; in his pocket he carries a pamphlet entitled "Regeneration." Through an archway, a disheveled and sleepy servant scratches his cap; the walls are decorated with paintings of religious figures
Alternative Title:
Marriage à-la-Mode, Pl. 2.
Description:
Title etched below image., State from Paulson., After the painting "Tête à Tête" in the National Gallery, London., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Touched in ink eyelid and stray hair on left but no lock., and Formerly on page 112 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Plate 19. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The countess holds a morning levée in her lavishly decorated bedroom. Her hairdresser curls her hair as she chats with her lawyer, Silvertongue, who is making arrangements to meet her at a masquerade (as shown on the screen). Others in the room include a female friend and her husband; a castrato singer accompanied by a flautist; a young black man who serves chocolate to the party; and a small black boy who points to the horns of a figure of Actaeon purchased at an auction with other objects, including a fake mermaid and a plate with the scene of Leda and the swan; playing cards and invitations are on the floor in the lower right. On the walls are paintings of biblical stories and mythology, including Lot's Daughters, Jupiter and Io, and Rape of Ganymede
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., After the painting "The Toilette" in the National Gallery, London., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.5 x 46.6 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 19 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
