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Royal embarkation, or bearing Brittania's hope from a bathing machine to the royal barge   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: George Cruikshank

Published by: Thomas Tegg
Title
Royal embarkation, or bearing Brittania's hope from a bathing machine to the royal barge
Description
English: The Regent, in tight and dandified admiral's full-dress uniform, wearing a cocked hat, is carried by two bathing women (cf. No. 8432) from a bathing-machine (right) to the barge 'Royal George', for transit to the royal yacht. Just behind is the machine, inscribed 'The Best Machines in Brighton'; from it two naked girls look towards the departing prince. A sailor standing in the barge, which flies the Royal Standard, seizes the Regent's ankles; one foot is gouty and swollen; he says to the man standing behind him (left): "My eyes jack this here craft will never carry him—we should bring the sheers and reeve a tackle for him in the long boat—!!" A naval officer stands beside the sailor, and shouts an order to the man behind: "shove the Barge further a stern & be d—d to you—what you about a head there." The Regent has an arm round the neck of each woman and grasps the plump breast of the nearer one who is comely. He says: "Do my dear Girls put me on board safe, I shall Tell Paget to give you some Grog—I have been almost suffocated in that infernal Bathing Machine—mind my foot." One bathing-woman says: "Faith he's no joke Judy the devil a heavier Burthen in all the country"; her comelier companion answers: "By my own soul I'd rather carry such a nice neat beautiful young Gentleman, than the best basket of mackerel that ever was at Billingsgate." The sailor on the left uses a pole to manipulate the barge, the bow of which is cut off by the left margin. He wears a tight blue jacket to the (pinched) waist, with red collar and cuffs, white trousers, and top-hat with a badge: 'Royal George'. With a grimace he says: "D—n these soldiers jackets I can't move in em—I suppose we shall all be lobsters by & bye!!" Behind (right) are the chalk cliffs of Brighton, with tiny figures waving their hats; one woman is seated on a donkey holding up a parasol.


Plate numbered 361.
1819


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: George IV, King of the United Kingdom
Date 1819
date QS:P571,+1819-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions

Height: 249 millimetres

Width: 346 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.12905
Notes

(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949) The Regent left Brighton for the Isle of Wight in his yacht on 7 Aug. 'Examiner', 1819, p. 521. This was his first visit to the Cowes Regatta: a water-colour of the 'Royal George' at anchor off Cowes is reproduced, Gavin, 'Royal Yachts', 1932, after p. 113. See 'Letters of Keats', 1935, p. 371. Charles Paget, fifth son of the Earl of Uxbridge, commanded one of the royal yachts (cf. No. 12804) 1817-19. 'Lobster' = British soldier. See also Nos. 13261, 13265.

Reid, No. 907. Cohn, No. 1917.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-12905
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