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[edit]The Royal Society.
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The Royal Society. |
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English: One of a set of prints on the marriage of the Prince of Wales, see BMSat 6924, &c. The Prince presides at a carouse round a circular table. His chair is above the level of the table on which he puts his left foot, crushing a wine-bottle; his right hand rests on the shoulder of (?) Sheridan, his left holds a wine-glass above his head; he says, "Fall too Ye royal crew! Drink Drink! your bellies full! pray do! Ai treats I never winces". Five men (right) are seated on his left: next him is Fox, holding a dice-box, and offering coins to Lord Derby on the opposite side of the table; a pack of cards is beside him. Next him is Burke, looking admiringly towards the Prince. Next is North. In the foreground sits George Hanger drinking, his long nose much caricatured; between his knees he holds his club or shillelagh. Behind his chair sits Keppel. On the left side of the table and on the Prince's right is first (?) Sheridan, then Weltje, then Topham (a Ministerialist journalist), then Lord Derby, leaning on the table and pointing to two coins. Next is a man in naval uniform, [Perhaps Admiral Hugh Pigot, see BMSat 5996, &c. (1782)] turning away from the table, resting his head on his arms which are on the back of his chair. On the table beside him is an open music-book inscribed, 'Catches Glees Which is the properest Day to Drink Saturday'. In the foreground sits a stout and jovial-looking man. [Perhaps Captain Morris (to whom the music-book may belong)] Most of the guests are holding glasses. A punch-bowl, decanters, glasses, a lemon, two dishes of fruit are on the table. On the extreme left is a high window draped with curtains. A picture on the wall (right) connects the scene with the Prince's marriage: a bishop (left) with a book marries a couple in quasi-Elizabethan costume. 1 April 1786
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Edmund Burke | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1786 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1868,0808.5515 |
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Cf. a letter from Hugh Elliot to Pitt from Brighton, 17 Oct. 1785, endorsed by Pitt 'Shewn to the King'. 'H.R.H. risks being lost to himself, his family and his country if a total and sudden change does not take place.' Quoted from Pitt MSS. 105 by Rose, 'Pitt and National Revival', p. 396. In 1786 Carlton House 'exhibited a perpetual scene of excess'. Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, p. 306. Cf. BMSat 6944. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5515 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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