print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1948,0214.833
- Title
- Object: The kettle calling the pot ugly names.
- Description
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A kettle and a pot are side by side on the flames behind the bars of a wide grate. The former is topped by the angry and startled face of the King, framed by wig and whiskers, and more caricatured than the Queen, whose head and bare shoulders emerge from the wide mouth of the pot. Steam, covered with words, issues from the mouth of both. The King, shrinking from, and glaring at his wife: "Hiss Hiss out Hiss Hiss The Devil begone you dirty grecepot." From the spout: "Hubble Bubble Toil and Trouble." His crown flies from his head. The Queen is more composed; she wears a feathered hat, and says: "Remember when the Judgements weak the prejudice is strong." The flames under the kettle are inscribed 'Leach' [see No. 13740], 'L . . . pool', 'C . . . h'; the fuel consists of bags inscribed 'Green Bag' [see No. 13735]. Under the Queen is one 'Green Bag' together with several stout sticks inscribed 'Bergami Pear Tree' [cf. No. 13869], 'A bit of Wood', and 'Broom Stick', the last two being her advisers, Wood, instigator-in-chief, and Brougham, cf. No. 13730. See No. 13760, &c.
12 August 1820
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1820
- Dimensions
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Height: 248 millimetres
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Width: 350 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)
Published shortly before the Queen's 'trial' began. For pot and kettle see Nos. 6013, 13848, 13898; cf. No. 14115.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1948,0214.833