print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.7577
- Title
- Object: The discarded Clark, or Eve driven out of paradice.
- Description
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Mrs. Clarke, clasping her hands in a tragic gesture, shrinks away from a well-dressed man who walks towards her with a gesture of angry dismissal. They are on a lawn shaded by trees before a house adjoining a large corner-house in 'Gloucester Place', placarded 'Comision Warehouse' (a second 'm' inserted in pen), but over the door is 'Removed to Charing Cross'. A plate on the door is inscribed '[Cla]rke'. Outside the door four men, small figures in the background, stand in conversation, two officers in cocked hats and two civilians. One of the latter says: "I'll swear my brother Tom purchased here"; an officer points up at the removal notice. At Mrs. Clarke's feet are two papers: 'Thr'o the Greenwood she took her lonely way, and all the world before her - [adapting 'Paradise Lost']', and 'Thou hast agrim appearance and thy face has a command in it - Shae' ['Coriolanus', iv. vj. June 1807
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1807
- Dimensions
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Height: 236 millimetres
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Width: 340 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', VIII, 1947)
A satire on the desertion of Mrs. Clarke by the Duke of York, and her consequent removal (in 1806) from Gloucester Place, and to her own trafficking in commissions. Greenwood connotes the Army Agents, here by implication involved with Mrs. Clarke, see BMSat 10730, &c. The man driving away Mrs. Clarke is 'Counsellor Adam' (A. de R. xi. 5); he acted for the Duke in this affair, see BMSat 11283, &c. For the Gloucester Place ménage see BMSat 11222, &c.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.7577
