print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.7768
Title: Object: Sampson asleep on the lap of Dalilah.
Description: Mrs. Clarke (left), more of a siren than in authentic portraits, sits indecorously on a sofa, while the Duke, with eyes tipsily closed, reclines against her, seated on the floor. She holds scissors and the Duke's long pigtail, which she has cut off and displays to two men who approach from the r., a military officer, probably Wardle, who puts his finger slyly to his nose, and a good-looking young civilian (? Folkestone). She says: "Gentlemen you may now take him with safety, his strength is gone, I have cut off his regulation tail, and there is no danger". 19 March 1809 Hand-coloured etching
Producer name: Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson; Published by: Thomas Tegg
School/style
Production date: 1809
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 249 millimetres; Width: 350 millimetres
$Inscriptions
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's resignation see No. 11276. For pigtails in the Army cf. No. 11024. The Regent and Lady Hertford were similarly depicted in 1812, see vol. ix. Grego, 'Rowlandson', ii. 154.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Associated with: Mary Anne Clarke; Associated with: William Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor; Associated with: Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany and Bishop of Osnabrück; Associated with: Col Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.7768

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