print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6234
- Title
- Object: The Thieves detected at last; or, a Wonderful discovery at the Windsor Farm!!
- Description
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George III and Queen Charlotte (caricatured), dressed as a farmer and farmer's wife, stand together (right) watching with astonishment two geese sucking the udders of a cow whose hindquarters appear on the extreme right. The King holds a milking-stool, his expression is one of goggling astonishment; the Queen holds a pail, she grins broadly. In the background (right) is a barn. 8 November 1792
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1792
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres
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Width: 340 millimetres (trimmed)
- $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 King's farms, see BMSat 6918, &c. Cf. Peter Pindar's 'Odes to Kien Long . . .', 1792:
'Nor dost thou watch the girl who milks the cow,
For fear the girl might sip, and prove a thief.'
de Vinck, No. 4394.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2014 May-Oct, Hannover, Lower Saxony State Museum, 'Hanoverians'
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6234
