print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6159
- Title
- Object: Frontispiece to the Wax Work and Monumental Records in Westminster Abbey
- Description
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A verger stands opposite a glass window (right), revealed by the opening of a door, behind which are life-size wax effigies of George III and Queen Charlotte, seated stiffly in profile to the left. The King holds his hat and a money-bag, the Queen two money-bags. The verger, who holds a staff and wears a hat and gown, points out the figures to a gaping countryman at whom he looks with sour contempt. Behind (left) a man in riding-dress holds up a little girl to see the sight; she holds the scraggy queue of the countryman. 20 February 1792
Etching with hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1792
- Dimensions
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Height: 263 millimetres
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Width: 427 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 supposed miserliness of the King and Queen, cf. BMSat 7836, &c. Effigies of Queen Elizabeth and others were (and are) among the interests of Westminster Abbey, see the plates in 'A View of the Wax Work Figures in . . . Westminster Abbey' [1787].
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6159
