print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1851,0901.241
- Title
- Object: Part the first-------as it is./ The gamblers.
- Description
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A companion print to BMSat 6779. Three men are seated on a settee behind a circular gaming-table, on which are cards, a dice-box, and guineas. On the right is the Prince of Wales, a dice-box in his left hand; with the right he points to the star on his coat, saying, "Who sets a thousand on This?" The man on the left, perhaps Sheridan, answers, stretching out his right arm to the Prince, "I say done - at it for a thousand". Fox, who sits between them, holds out his right hand covertly to Sheridan and takes from him a pair of dice, saying, "Give me the cog'd dies and I'll nick him". 9 Janury 1785
Etching, partly hand-coloured
- Production date
- 1785
- Dimensions
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Height: 249 millimetres
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Width: 341 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)
One of many satires on the evil influence of Fox on the Prince of Wales, cf. BMSat 6237, 6401, &c. See also BMSat 6774.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1851,0901.241
