Wife & no wife, or, A trip to the Continent [graphic] / design'd by Carlo Khan.
- Published/Created:
- [London]
Publish'd by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt., London
March 27, 1788 - Copyright Date:
- March 27, 1788.
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on wove paper ; sheet 37 x 47 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
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.
Companion print to: "The morning after marriage, or, A scene on the Continent."
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.
Old Print Shop; March 1961; Acquisitions no.: 961-3-1-222.
Formerly matted with a counterproof of: The morning after marriage, or, A scene on the Continent. (See LWL 788.04.05.01++ Impression 2). - Abstract:
- "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.
- Variant Titles:
- Trip to the Continent
Wife and no wife - Associated Names:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Holland, William, active 1782-1817 [Publisher] - Topics:
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
Harvey, Fr
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810 - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings -- England -- London -- 1788
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1786
Stipple engravings -- England -- London -- 1788 - 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:
- 788.03.27.01++
- Orbis Record:
- 8070596
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr06396
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 10728439
- PID:
- digcoll:551626
