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A novice entering the Convent of St George!   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: George Cruikshank

Published by: S Knight
Title
A novice entering the Convent of St George!
Description
English: A scene outside the gate of Carlton House (right) which is inscribed 'Convent of Saint Geo[rge]'. The Duke of York, wearing a long gown over uniform, stands with legs astride, holding a crosier; on his head is a mitre in which is a feathered plume. He addresses Princess Charlotte (left), standing between her and a meretricious-looking mother abbess with a transparent lace veil over her head, and a birch-rod tied behind her back. The Duke says: "There's no compulsion my darling only you must." The Princess, who wears a décolletée dress and small coronet, stands with folded arms and downcast eyes; she answers: "Needs must when the [Devil drives]." The Bishop of Salisbury, dressed like a bare-footed friar, bends towards her, pointing to the right; he says: "See? ther's the Lady Abbess! come pray take the veil." His wig extends laterally round his head, concealing his face, and is inscribed 'Salisbury Plain'. The abbess, fat and sinister, looks at the Princess with a cunning leer; she holds a lace veil like her own, and says: "Come! come Child take the veil & forget your own Mother & then your good papa will love you." Four 'nuns' with hoods over their heads stand behind her (right), watching and talking in couples. Behind them is a corner of Carlton House; over the gate dangles a bottle, sign of debauchery. On a hill behind the abbess is 'Warwick House'; a broom projects from the roof supporting a placard 'To Lett' (like the brooms tied to ships' masts to show they were for sale). On the extreme right behind the Bishop is a hackney coach and coachman standing beside a sign-post pointing (left) to 'Connaught' [Place].


25 July 1814.


Hand-coloured etching.
Depicted people Representation of: Princess Charlotte of Wales
Date 1814
date QS:P571,+1814-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions

Height: 250 millimetres

Width: 355 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.12795
Notes

(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949) After her flight to Connaught Place, see No. 12292, and the conference there, see No. 12295, Princess Charlotte went to Carlton House. The arrangements for receiving her, while Cranborne House was being prepared, had been urged on the reluctant Regent by Queen Charlotte (4 July) to propitiate public opinion, and despite the great inconvenience it would cause him, to 'save yourself from the effects of popular clamour which an impression that Charlotte is sent by you to a place of confinement may produce'. 'Corr. of George IV', 1938, i. 460 f. Here 'Abbess' = bawd, see No. 5177, &c. The Duke of York had been titular Bishop of Osnaburg, see No. 11227. He was one of the envoys sent by the Regent to Connaught Place. 'Darling' is probably an echo of his letters to Mrs. Clarke, see No. 11228, &c.

Reid, No. 348. Cohn, No. 1797.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-12795
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