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The queen of hearts cover'd with diamonds   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The queen of hearts cover'd with diamonds
Description
English: A companion print to BMSat 6979. A bust portrait of Queen Charlotte, directed to the left, taking a pinch of snuff. She wears a jewelled oriental turban; her hair is studded with jewels, and jewels cover her neck and ornament her dress. A large ear-ring is conspicuous. In the upper left corner of the print, under the words 'The Pun', is a large heart-shaped jewel surmounted with a crown; it stands, embedded in diamonds, in a box inscribed 'Bulse'. c.1786
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: Charlotte, Queen of George III
Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 143 millimetres
Width: 111 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5560
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

A satire on the diamond presented to the King by the Nizam of the Deccan, through Hastings, see BMSat 6966, &c.; also on the gifts of jewels supposed to be given to the Queen by Mrs. Hastings. Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, iv. 19 n., 342. 'The Pun' appears to stress the plainness of the Queen (not stressed in the print); cf. BMSat 6931. She is called 'the old Queen of Diamonds' by a correspondent of Lord Charlemont in 1796. 'Hist. MSS. Commission, Charlemont Papers', ii. 275. For her supposed greed for jewels see also BMSats 7287,7288,7301 (2), 7312,7359 (14), 7626. Cf. BMSat 6969, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5560
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