"A whole length portrait of Mrs. Fitzherbert, walking left to right, her hands in a muff, her head turned to the spectator. Her hat has three ostrich feathers and the motto 'Ich dien' to indicate her marriage, see British Museum Satires No. 6924, &c. Her hair hangs loosely on her shoulders and her dress has the fashionable protuberances at the bust and below the waist, cf. British Museum Satires No. 7099, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fat, fair and forty
Description:
Title from item., Price in lower right corner: 1s. 6d., Temporary local subject terms: Earlier state of the print owned by Horace Walpole (NYPL, no. 83), with his identification., In pencil on verso: (George T. Stubbs)., and 1 print : etching & engraving with stipple on laid paper : plate mark 30.2 x 19.7 cm, on sheet 31.9 x 21.2 cm.
Publisher:
Published by W.S. [sic] Fores Mar 20th, 1786 at his Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
Subject (Topic):
Relations with women, Obesity, Muffs, Hats, and Feathers
"Lady Conyngham sits on a chair under which crouches the King; his head, larger than life, draped by her skirts, and hands project (left). She holds a fan, on which is depicted the 'Regent's Bomb', see British Museum Satires No. 12799, with (?) the King seated astride it. In her left hand is a tulip. She wears evening dress, jewels, and feathers. On the back of her chair is a (baron's) coronet. She says: "You're Old Quarters how do you like now, My Angel." He says: "O! what a mess I am in, this part of the Country is hotter, than in Hertford!""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Shelter for the destitute, removed to Cunningham Lodge
Description:
Title from text below image., Questionable printmaker attribution to Vowles from the British Museum catalogue., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 84 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Geo. IV" and "Lady Conyngham" identified in ink below image; date "13 Sep. 1820" written in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. 13 Septr. 1820 by S. Vowles, 31 St. Johns Square
Subject (Name):
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861 and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Mistresses, Chairs, Fans (Accessories), Tulips, Jewelry, Feathers, and Crowns
Opposite half-title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Margery in stays and petticoat seated before her dressing-table holds the monstrous erection on her head. Her father, Inkle, seated on a chair (right), watches in astonishment. A maid stands by an open door (left) holding the cock which has been robbed of its tail-feathers, some of which lie on the ground, others adorn Margery's head-dress. A cat miaows at the cock."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker identified as William Hibbart in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1855,1208.65. Formerly attributed to William Hassel by Mary Dorothy George., Later state, with etched shading lines added in the background. Earlier state is a plate from: Anstey, C. An election ball. Bath : S. Hazard, 1777. Cf. No. 5386 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf 23 x 14 cm., and Mounted opposite half-title page in Horace Walpole's copy of: Boswell, J. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.
Publisher:
Pub. by C. Anstey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Corsets, Dressing tables, Roosters, Feathers, and Cats
Title supplied by catalogue raisonné., Translated title supplied by curator., Date and place of publication supplied by catalogue raisonné., In pencil lower right margin: A Besnard., State supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Morphine abuse, Drug addiction, Women, and Feathers