A scene in the honey moon, or, Conjugal felicity [graphic] / [man with an umbrella] Esqr. del.

Creator:

Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[1828?]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching ; sheet 26.1 x 37.9 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/5234121

Notes:

Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are dialy [sic] pub. the largest assortment of any house in town.
Print signed using William Heath's device: character of Paul Pry, a man with an umbrella.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title etched below image.

Abstract:

"The Duke (left) and Duchess of St. Albans stand facing each other; the little Duke staggering under an ornamental basket which supports a side of bacon, inscribed Best Wiltshire. The Duchess holds on her shoulder a cutter in which are seated six oarsmen with oars held erect, and a helmsman. The Duke is dressed as Grand Falconer (see British Museum Satires No. 15596) and wears a hood with bells indicating both a fool's cap and the hood and bells of falconry. Two speeches float from his head: [1] "In love connubial, formed to live and last, This gift records a blissful twelvemonth past We claim, then boldly claim the flitch Dunmow First of the blest, who keep the marriag Vow". [2] I thought the flitch to small a present on this auspicious day so I have brought the Gammon with it Love. The Duchess answers: Thanks for your Bacon Duke well have you Saved it - and in return accept of this small Testimony of my affection. She wears Court dress, coronet, and feathers. The boatmen wear yellow and green liveries, and on the prow is a falcon's head; the back of the seat in the stern is decorated with a falcon perched on a melon resting on a heap of sovereigns. In the foreground are spectators: on the left the Dukes of Cumberland (wearing his hat) and Sussex stand together with Prince Leopold behind them; on the right is Sir Francis Burdett (son-in-law of Coutts), very thin, surprised, and displeased. In the background are other spectators, their heads concealed by the boat, and on the right a group of singers, some in Tyrolean costume, with (?) Braham and Miss Stephens; they sing: a boat a boat."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Conjugal felicity
Scene in the honeymoon

Topics:

Bacon.
Baskets.
Boats.
Marriage.
Rowers.
Spectators.
Spouses.

Topics:

Augustus Frederick,--Prince, Duke of Sussex,--1773-1843--Caricatures and cartoons.
Braham, John,--1774-1856--Caricatures and cartoons.
Burdett, Francis,--1770-1844--Caricatures and cartoons.
Ernest Augustus,--King of Ha

Language:

English

Genre:

Artists' devices.
Etchings--England--London--1828.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1828.

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:

828.00.00.115+

Orbis Record:

15376513

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr41532

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, no. 15600

OID:

17324479

PID:

digcoll:5234121