print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.9179
- Title
- Object: The jolly waterman and his fair ["ir" crossed through, substituted with "re"] !!!
- Description
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The Duke of Clarence rows a Thames wherry vigorously towards waterside stairs on which Wellington stands defensively. The latter, holding a boat-hook, says, 'Come Keep off—you are not coming in here'; he wears red with a badged sleeve, as if in the uniform of the royal barge, but with a battered hat. The stairs are placarded in big letters: 'Crown Stairs'. Clarence's "Fare" is his Duchess, who holds the rudder-lines; she is in half-back-view, and wears the usual inflated sleeves and huge hat trimmed with ribbon loops. Clarence's oar is inscribed 'William—4'; he wears the loose checked shirt of a sailor, and looks over his shoulder to shout: 'Come I say old Scarlet—let my Boat alone d—nme you have had it all your own way long enough—I have a right to come in and I will come in and bring my Fair in too—so get out of my way'. Behind (left) a crowd on the quayside cheers the wherry. June 11 1830
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1830
- Dimensions
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Height: 261 millimetres
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Width: 372 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)
One of several plates on Wellington's supposed autocratic intentions in connexion with the King's illness and death; hostility to the Duke of Clarence is assumed, see Nos. 16129, &c, 16133, &c. Cf. No. 16149. For William as waterman cf. Nos. 11747 (1811), 16173.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.9179