print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1902,1011.8276
Title: Object: A blow-up at breakfast!
Description: The Queen (left) watches with dismay the King shoot into the air from the armchair at her side, the seat of his breeches bursting into flames and smoke. He holds up his arms, dropping a cup and saucer, and saying, "Lord have mercy upon me! G-d d--n the dogs I knew they'd blow me up at last!" On the extreme right is part of a small circular table on which are a dish of muffins and an urn. 20 May 1792 Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Richard Newton; Published by: William Holland
School/style: British
Production date: 1792
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 413 millimetres; Width: 277 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A companion print to BMSat 8091. For alarms of incendiarism connected with burning breeches see BMSat 8087, &c.
Bibliographic references: BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (8092); Alexander 1998 / Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s (44)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire
Associated names: Associated with: Charlotte, Queen of George III; Associated with: George III, King of the United Kingdom
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: William Meriton Eaton, 2nd Baron Cheylesmore
Acquisition date: 1902
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1902,1011.8276

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