print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.8810
- Title
- Object: The honey moon and the man in the moon.-or a peep through a holly-bush.
- Description
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The Duchess and Duke of St. Albans, interrupted among money-bags and coins in the garden of Holly Lodge, recoil in horror from a vision in a large disk, like the projection of a magic lantern. The disk is backed by dense hollies, and contains the (H.L.) ghost of old Coutts, wearing a shroud, hands raised in angry protest. He says: So that's the way my money goes, is it!—Oh! cruel Harriott, I can't sleep in my grave quietly, set a beggar on horseback and—you know the rest. The Duchess, seated in a low chair, wearing a coronet, and with purse and coins on her lap, exclaims: O Lord! who would have thought the Old fellow, would have come after us, but he never was of much use when alive, and he can only pinch me a little when he's dead. Git up you fool are you afraid of a ghost.— The Duke is on both knees, hair on end, hands raised; he says: O, Sir—good old Gentleman my poverty consented, not my will. Two frogs look towards the Duke. See BM Satires 15453. &c. July 1827
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1827
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres
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Width: 352 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', X, 1952)
Reproduced, Pearce, op. cit., p. 264.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.8810
