print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.8422
- Title
- Object: Royal George in the kitchen or high life below stairs.
- Description
-
Beside the kitchen table, lit by one candle, the Regent (left) sits on a chair with a fat cook-maid on his knee; she holds a rolling-pin. He flourishes a goblet, spilling wine, and sings:
'You may baste meat at leisure
I'ts my will and pleasure
Distinctions betwixt you and me,
Hence forward shall Cease
In Love and in Peace
The P——e and his Cook shall agree.'
Yarmouth (right), holding a black woman on his knee, sings:
'How sweet and bewitching
Is the Queen of the Kitchen
So here's to your health
my sweet dear.'
Behind the table another courtier kisses a woman. A jovial footman (right) brings in a bowl of punch. On the floor are a wine-cooler and bottles. See No. 13208, &c.
30 March 1819
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1819 (c.)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 244 millimetres
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Width: 350 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- (Description from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
(Supplementary information)
The publication date is inscribed in the bottom right corner with pen and ink.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.8422