print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.5886
- Title
- Object: Scotch wedding.
- Description
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Lady Charlotte Gordon and Col. Lennox leap over a broom which lies on the floor; she holds him by the left wrist and points towards a nuptial bed decorated with a coat of arms (that of the Duke of Gordon, freely sketched) and ducal coronet. The Duchess of Gordon (right) sits in profile to the left playing bagpipes and looking at the couple with a satisfied smile. Behind her chair is a bottle, inscribed 'Scotch Pint', and a wine-glass. Lennox wears regimentals and a hat, his right arm is held up as if dancing a Scots reel; a pair of pistols (an allusion to his duel with the Duke of York, see BMSat 7531, &c.) protrudes from his pocket. Lady Charlotte wears a large feathered hat. It is clear from her attitude and the expression of the Duchess that the bridegroom, though willing, has not taken the initiative. 23 September 1789
Etching
- Production date
- 1789
- Dimensions
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Height: 240 millimetres
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Width: 369 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)
For the match-making achievements of the Duchess of Gordon see Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, iv. 459-63. The marriage took place 9 Sept, 1789; it is foreshadowed in BMSat 7535.
Reproduced, Paston, pl. xxxviii.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.5886