The prince in clover [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. June 2d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
[2 June 1787]

Copyright Date:

[2 June 1787]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; image 11.7 x 18.1 cm, on sheet 27.1 x 20.1 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7168
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 90

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Etched on one plate with companion print: The prince at grass.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Payment of Prince's debts -- Carlton House.
Old Print Shop; March 1961; Acquisitions no.: 961-3-1-57.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 12.7 x 18.9 cm.
Window mounted to 14 x 21 cm.

Abstract:

"The Prince stands outside the gate of Carlton House as in BMSat 7167, but receives in a lordly manner two purses from two obsequiously bowing Treasury Secretaries (Rose and Steele). He is dressed as in BMSat 7167, but wears his coronet. Pitt, Sydney, and Dundas kneel in a grovelling manner behind the Prince, whose posteriors Pitt is about to kiss. Fox, North, Burke, and Sheridan stand behind, with gestures and expressions of pleased surprise. A tiny figure, the Duke of Richmond, is at work with a trowel on the replaced scaffolding (right), while Thurlow mounts a ladder carrying a hod. On the left a crowd of workmen wave their hats and tools in delight. In the foreground (left) sits a one-legged and one-armed sailor clasping a purse."--British Museum online catalogue.

Associated Names:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Fores, S. W. [Publisher]

Topics:

Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1787
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1787

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

787.06.02.02 Impression 2

Orbis Record:

11648741

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr06238

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10728323

PID:

digcoll:2755528