print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.7768
- Title
- Object: Sampson asleep on the lap of Dalilah.
- Description
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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
- Production date
- 1809
- Dimensions
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Height: 249 millimetres
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Width: 350 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'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.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.7768
