File:Reynard's Hope, a scene in the Tempest between Trinculo, Stephano and Caliban (BM 1868,0808.5249).jpg
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[edit]Reynard's Hope, a scene in the Tempest between Trinculo, Stephano and Caliban ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: William Dent
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Title |
Reynard's Hope, a scene in the Tempest between Trinculo, Stephano and Caliban |
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Description |
English: A scene near the shore of the island; the wrecked ship with splintered masts, lying on the shore (right), is the 'Royal George'. The Prince of Wales as Trinculo (left) stands in profile to the right holding a bottle of wine in his right hand, addressing Fox who is Stephano; he says: "Give me dear woman - and give me good wine - and you may govern all things else as thine". He wears a fool's cap with bells, ornamented with three ostrich feathers and 'Ich dien'. Beside him is a barrel inscribed 'Butt' and 'P. of W'. Fox as the drunken butler, directed to the left, holds out his right fore-finger to the Prince, saying: "Taffy - when the Island's ours - my brave Boy - I - I'll be King - and you shall be Viceroy"; in his left hand he holds a dice-box inscribed 'Compass'. On the ground at Fox's feet, facing the Prince, kneels Caliban, a hairy body with the head of North; he says:
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Depicted people | Associated with: William Shakespeare | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1784 date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.5249 |
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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 relations of the Prince of Wales with the Coalition, cf. BMSat 6237, 6401, 6528, &c. For similar allusions to the Royal George cf. BMSat 6042, 6574. For Fox's ambition cf. BMSat 6380, &c. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5249 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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