File:A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion (BM 1851,0901.618 1).jpg
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[edit]A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: James Gillray
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Title |
A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion |
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Description |
English: The Prince of Wales, languid with repletion, leans back in an arm-chair, holding a fork to his mouth. His waistcoat is held together by a single button across his distended stomach. On his right a circular table covered with the remains of a meal, with decanters of 'Port' and 'Brandy', a castor of 'Chian'. Under the table, partly covered by the cloth, are empty wine-bottles. Behind the chair (right) a brimming chamber-pot stands on a table or commode on which are long bills: 'Poulterers Bill . . . unpaid, Butcher's Bill . . . unpaid, Baker's Bill . . . unpaid', and (on the ground) 'Doctors Bill'. In the foreground (right) lie a dice-box and dice with three books: 'Debts of Honor Unpaid', 'Newmarket List', and 'Faro Partnership Account Self Archer Hobart & Co.'
Etching and stipple with hand-colouring |
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Depicted people | Representation of: George IV, King of the United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1792 date QS:P571,+1792-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1851,0901.618 |
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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 companion print to BMSat 8117. The faro-tables of Mrs. Hobart and Lady Archer were already notorious, see BMSat 8075; it is suggested that the Prince shared in their profits. For the Prince and Newmarket see BMSat 7918, &c. For his debts see BMSat 7873, &c. Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 148-9 (small copy); Wright and Evans, No. 85. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Reproduced, Paston, pl. clxxiii; Ashton, 'Florizel's Folly', 1899, p. 167; Fuchs, after p. 248. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-618 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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