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John Bull's hint for a profitable alliance.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank

Published by: S W Fores
Title
John Bull's hint for a profitable alliance.
Description
English: The stout Empress of Russia sits on a throne, whose seat she completely covers, facing three-quarter to the left towards the Prince of Wales, who bows before her, hat in hand, in profile to the right. He says, adapting (as in BMSat 7380) Falstaff's words ('2 Henry, IV', v. 5): "Oh what a thing it is to be in Love, To ride day and night; not to deliberate not to remember, not to have patience to shift me, but to stand stained with travel, & sweating with desire to see thee: Thinking on nothing else; putting all affairs in oblivion, as if there were nothing else to be done, but to see thee." He wears riding-dress with spurred boots. Behind and on the extreme left stands John Bull, full-face, a plainly dressed citizen wearing top-boots; he says: "There my Lad is a fine buxom Widow, aye and warm too, if you'l have her you need not ask Dad, or any of your Acquaintance for any Thing, she'll finish your house, & furnish it too for you, aye & keep you warm in cold frosty weather with her fur skins, a rare match my Lad especially as you are fond of Widows!!" (cf. BMSat 8485). The Empress, who clutches the fur (a tiger-skin) which trims her draperies, has an inscrutable expression. On her right is the bust of Fox by Nollekens (see BMSat 7902, &c), peering forward at the Prince with an anxious expression. On her left and on the extreme right stands a courtier, holding a long staff, wearing a bear's skin, his profile showing through the beast's open jaws. Behind is the back of the throne decorated with a double-headed imperial eagle. 26 September 1794.
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Catherine II, Empress of Russia
Date 1794
date QS:P571,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 243 millimetres
Width: 395 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6361
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

The Prince's debts had driven him to declare his readiness to marry, the only terms on which George III would increase his income. By Aug. 1794 he had promised the King to give up Mrs. Fitzherbert (cf. BMSat 8485) and marry the Princess of Brunswick. See BMSat 8673, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6361
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