print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1851,0901.949
- Title
- Object: A scene in the enchanted island
- Description
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Sheridan and Fox walk arm-in-arm as Trinculo the jester and Caliban; beside them walks (?) Grattan (cf. BMSat 9343) as Stephano, the drunken butler, holding a small cask of Irish whiskey to his lips. Sheridan holds a bottle of 'Sherry', and says: "The folly of this Island! They say there's but five upon this Isle- we are three of them; if the other two be brain'd like us the state totters." Fox is ragged, hairy, and unshorn, with talons for nails. Both wear bonnets-rouges. Pitt (right), as the invisible Ariel, flies off, saying, "This will I tell my Master" [George III]. ['Tempest', III. ii.] 6 December 1798.
Etching
- Production date
- 1798
- Dimensions
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Height: 234 millimetres
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Width: 327 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)
A satire on the discredit of the Opposition after the Irish Rebellion, confession of O'Connor, and Battle of the Nile, cf. BMSat 9228, 9245, 9248, &c. For satirical adaptations of 'The Tempest', cf. BMSat 6535, 8618, 9275.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1851,0901.949