print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1851,0901.720
- Title
- Object: Thoughts on matrimony.
- Description
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The Prince stands with folded arms, in the corner of a room, gazing up at a three-quarter length portrait of Lady Jersey as a pretty young woman; she looks down at him alluringly. The portrait hangs over the chimney-piece (right), a fire burns in the grate. From his right hand dangles disregarded an oval miniature of the Princess of Brunswick. Beside the Prince, who turns his back on him, stands a grotesque German courier, who holds up a tiny pair of stockings on the feet of which are shoes. The German has moustaches, a pigtail queue reaching to the ground, he wears spurred top-boots and holds a glove; he gapes with astonishment at the portrait. On the two walls other pictures are arranged in two rows, the lower part only of the upper row being visible. These are (above): 'Pretty Millener', a reclining figure; 'Portrait of a Lady & Child', a pregnant lady leads a child; 'Mrs Crouch' (three-quarter length). Below, 'Mrs Robinson' (three-quarter length); 'Florizel & Perdita', the pair with arms entwined, the King and (?) Queen crouch behind a tree to spy on them; 'Fitsherbet' [sic], who stands, looking to the left, holding a rosary. 26 January 1795.
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1795
- Dimensions
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Height: 349 millimetres
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Width: 247 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', VII, 1942)
For Florizel and Perdita (Mary Robinson) see BMSat 5767, &c.; for Mrs. Fitzherbert BMSat 6924 and index, volumes vi and vii; for Mrs. Crouch BMSat 8073; for Lady Jersey BMSat 8485 and index. For the Prince's betrothal see BMSat 8610, &c.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1851,0901.720