print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.8847
Title: Object: Cottage amusement
Description: In a garden pavilion Lady Conyngham plays ninepins, George IV standing by the pins. In evening dress, with feathered head and hair dressed in high loops and ringlets, she stoops, watching her ball, Secret Influence [cf. BM Satires No. 15512], among the pins, all of which have human heads. All have fallen or are falling, except for the centre pin (the only one without an inscription), with Wellington's head, which with his cocked hat dominates the others. These are identified by inscriptions: Forgn Dept [Dudley] and Brd of Comptl [Charles Wynn] lie flat. The 1st Ld Treasury [Goderich], Home Dep . . . [Lansdowne] and Mint [Tierney] are falling together. The Woods & Forests [Sturges-Bourne] falls, the Prvv Seal and Ducy of Lancstr [Carlisle and Bexley] totter. She says: There, did I not tell you I could do it if I would now set them up again as I told you, leave that Center one, I can do anything with him. Lord Mount Charles, standing just behind her, says: Let him stand Mother, because he has shoved me up the Army Ladder. The King, who is strangely thin, exclaims: Oh dear I am quite fatigued!!! its nothing but knocking down and setting up again—Why I shall not be able to get a Pin to stand at all, bye & bye. From behind a curtain on the extreme left projects an Irish profile (O'Connell's), saying, by St Partrick, & is it that, you want? only give us emancipation, & we'll provide you plenty of them there things. Behind the pavilion are trees and water; on the farther side are grotesque Chinese buildings including a pagoda. Above the head of Mount Charles is an inscription: He jests at Scars who never saw a Wound. Below the design : Since the season for Fishing no longer is kind I've invented new Sports to amuse yr great mind. February 1 1828 Hand-coloured etching
Producer name: Print made by: Henry Heath; Published by: S W Fores
School/style
Production date: 1828
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 246 millimetres; Width: 352 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954) For Goderich's resignation see No. 15498; for the supposed political influence of Lady Conyngham, No. 15509, &c. Mountcharles told Greville that his mother had 'strong opinions in favour of the Catholics but that she never talks to the King on the subject, nor indeed upon politics at all'. Greville, Memoirs, 1938, i. 171 (25 Mar. 1827). The King wished to keep Lansdowne and Carlisle, see No. 15502. Dudley kept the Foreign Office, resigning with the Canningites in May. See Aspinall, 'The Last of the Canningites', Eng. Hist. Rev., pp. 639 ff. For political ninepins cf. Nos. 4841, 15550. See also No. 15513; for satires on diversions at the Cottage see No. 15541, &c.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Associated with: Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley; Associated with: George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle; Associated with: Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness Conyngham; Associated with: John William Ward, Earl of Dudley; Associated with: George IV, King of the United Kingdom; Associated with: Frederick John Robinson, Viscount Goderich and 1st Earl of Ripon; Associated with: Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne; Associated with: Francis Nathaniel, 2nd Marquess Conyngham; Associated with: Daniel O'Connell; Associated with: William Sturges Bourne; Associated with: George Tierney; Associated with: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Associated with: Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.8847

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