print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.8896
- Title
- Object: The feast near eateon [a and second e crossed through] or master George and his little visitor
- Description
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Above the design as an alternative title: Children will be Children— The King, dressed as a little boy, faces the Queen of Portugal across a small table covered with sweetmeats. He half-rises from his arm-chair to hand across the table a long sugar-stick taken from a plate of Wellington Lolypops, saying, Have a bit of this—Glory. She stands in her high-chair to grasp it, leaning forward, clutching a big spoon in her left hand, which she rests on the table; the Order of the Tower and Sword dangles from her neck. The King wears a wide neck-frill and blue suit, with short loose trousers; on the floor beside him is a top. His guest wears a babyish white frock; beside her lies a damaged puppet, crowned, with a rope round its neck, and labelled Uncle Mig. A servant in scarlet livery stands behind each chair: Wellington behind the King, holds the back of his chair and smiles with obsequious, but anxious, benignity; Peel holds a dish of Candid Orange Peel [see BM Satires No. 15390] surmounted by a large crown. On the table besides other sweets are boxes of Sugar Plumbs and Bulls Eyes, and slabs of Ally Campane (elecampane, see BM Satires No. 14444).
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1827-1829
- Dimensions
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Height: 261 millimetres
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Width: 373 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', XI, 1954)
See No. 15557, &c. 'Near Eton' shows that the scene is at Windsor, see No. 15564. Cf. prints of the King as an infant, No. 13764, &c.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.8896