print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6091
- Title
- Object: Summer amusement at Farmer G-'s near Windsor.
- Description
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The interior of a dairy: George III (left), in shirt-sleeves, is churning; the Queen, dressed as a farmer's wife, sits in the window counting the coins which the Princess Royal pours on to the table. The Princess has a basket on her arm and is dressed like a country-girl. The Queen says, "Bless me, Child, you have made a very bad market! Good Heavens is it possible the people can be so unreasonable these plentiful times to expect six eggs for a groat! You shall tramp to London next market day." The King adds, "A very bad market girl, indeed, a very bad market girl - Limy shall go next" (cf. BMSat 6947). Behind the King are shelves with bowls of cream, a furtive cat drinks from one of them. Above them, three milk-scores are chalked on the wall, headed, 'Cartwheel's score', 'The Widow Waggonrut', and 'Mrs Towser'.
On the ground (left) is a pile of cheeses. Outside the wide doorway (right) Pitt, elegantly dressed, is milking a cow with a fastidious air; he sings:
"I made war with Kate,
a buxom Northern Lass:
But such my cruel fate - "
Thurlow, wearing a smock, stands with his back to Pitt, cracking a whip; he says,
"She bid you kiss her A------!
Damn the Whip I'll never learn the right smack of a Carter." 9 August 1791
Etching
- Production date
- 1791
- Dimensions
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Height: 342 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 492 millimetres (cropped)
- $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 other satires on the royal farms at Windsor and their parsimonious management see BMSat 6918, &c, and cf. BMSat 7836, &c. For Pitt's Russian policy, see BMSat 7841, &c.
Reproduced, Paston, pl. clxx.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6091