File:Tasting a sandwich!!! or, a high flavour'd relish, from the copper isles.jpg

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English: Tasting a sandwich!!! or, a high flavour'd relish, from the copper isles. Hand-coloured etching. Print made by: Isaac Robert Cruikshank biography. Published by: John Fairburn. George IV, discarding his crutch, embraces the Queen of the Sandwich Islands, who is seated on the edge of a box-settee, and puts her hand on his shoulder. She has aquiline features and is naked except for a head-dress and ornaments of feathers, and a small apron, and holds a feathered rod. Her body is painted with arabesques of red and blue. The husband, similarly dressed and patterned, rushes in at the door (left) holding a half-full decanter. He registers ferocity, saying, Kissa! Kissa! —Oha! breaka! Wifa! heada!!, but is unobserved. The King says (adapting Gay's ' Beggar's Opera'): I've kiss'd and I've prattled with fifty fair maids And changed them as oft d'ye see. But of all the sweet creatures my eyes ever saw, A Copper faced damsel for me. She responds: Oha!! nica buckra-mana! Kissa sweeta mia blackra dogga, Maca Cacka. A cushion and broken glass have fallen to the floor; on a small table are decanters and glass. A sash-window open to the ground gives a view of trees. June 1824
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Author Robert Isaac Cruikshank (1789–1856); J. Fairburn

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