print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.7734
- Title
- Object: A pilgrimage from surry to Gloucester place or the bishop in an extacy.
- Description
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The Duke of York, in a pilgrim's gown, wearing a mitre and with a crosier for his staff, approaches the corner of a house where two women, Mrs. Clarke and Miss Taylor, look eagerly from an open window. Behind him his path, 'Road to destruction', leads down from a country house in trees, Oatlands. Beside the path is a stone: 'Stumbling Block'. Near the house the Duchess of York kneels imploringly, raising her arms towards the distant Duke. Behind her is one of her many pet dogs (see No. 11023). The Duke tramples on two open books: 'Thoughts on Connubial Happiness' and 'Thou shalt not commit Adultery'. He says: "Now for a meeting with my Dearest Dear". On the house many bills are posted: 'Man Traps are placed every Night in these grounds'; 'Diamonds by Mrs Clarke Lapidary to his Highness'; 'This evening will be performed Duke and No Duke [by Tate, 1685] By his Majesties Servts . . .'; 'Agency Office business transacted on moderate Terms'; 'Leakes Pills by appoint. . Taylor'; 'Suppression of vice'; 'To all—Journeymen Taylors wanted'.
27 February 1809.
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1809
- Dimensions
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Height: 253 millimetres
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Width: 343 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)
See No. 11216, &c. For the Duke as bishop see No. 11227; for Gloucester Place, No. 11222. Mary Ann Taylor was a confidante of Mrs. Clarke who kept an (ostensible) boarding school in Chelsea. She gave damaging (but suspect) evidence. Cobbett set on foot a subscription for a fund to pay her debts and provide a joint life pension for herself and her sister. 'Pol. Reg.', 18 Mar. 1809. The Society for the Suppression of Vice, established 1802 by Evangelicals, was a prosecution society, active against obscene publications, &c.
Grego, 'Rowlandson', ii. 148.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.7734
