File:Love's last shift. (BM 1868,0808.5624).jpg
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Love's last shift.
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| Title |
Love's last shift. |
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English: A squalid domestic interior: the Prince of Wales (right) and Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) sit facing each other on each side of an open fireplace. A calf's head suspended from a string roasts before the fire. She mends a pair of breeches which he has taken off; on the breeches and on his left leg the word 'Honi' is conspicuous. He is out at elbows though fashionably dressed. Next to Mrs. Fitzherbert and on the extreme left is an infant in a wicker cradle, on rockers; the Prince negligently holds a string attached to the cradle. On the wall is a ballad: 'A Begging We will go &c.' The Prince of Wales' feathers also decorate the wall. On the extreme right is a small table, scantily laid for one. Weltje kneels beside it, unpacking a basket of potatoes. He looks round at George Hanger who stands behind the table in profile to the left holding a mug. 26 February 1787
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Maria Anne Fitzherbert | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1787 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
1868,0808.5624 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A satire on the Prince's debts, see BMSat 6967, &c. It is a sequel to those of 1786 on the Prince's marriage and expected child, see BMSats 6924, 6954, &c. The title is from Cibber's first play, 'Love's Last Shift, or the Fool in Fashion' (1696). Reproduced, J. Ashton, 'Florizel's Folly', 1899, p. 102. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5624 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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