print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.12.122
- Title
- Object: Which is the dirtiest, so foul the stains will be indelible
- Description
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The King (right) and Queen (left) hurl mud at each other. By the former (who wears jack-boots) is a bucket of 'Italian Filth' [see No. 13762, &c.]; the Queen's (similar) bucket is inscribed 'Filth from St Giles's, St James, Portman Sqr, Hamilton Place [the Conynghams' address, see No. 13847] &c &c &c.'
5 September 1820
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1820
- Dimensions
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Height: 227 millimetres
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Width: 324 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)
A satire on the Queen's 'trial', see No. 13825. For her proletarian supporters cf. No. 13934, &c. Part of this print appears in No. 14049. Cf. No. 13788, &c.
De Vinck, No. 10397.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.12.122
