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Dead. Positively dead   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Dead. Positively dead
Description
English: A satire on the secret negotiations between Thurlow and the Prince of Wales during the King's insanity. Thurlow stands defiantly, putting on (turning) his coat, and saying, "This side will do as well as the Other". Beside him (left) is the Prince of Wales, a handkerchief to his face as if weeping, while he tramples on a paper: 'Prayer for Restoratn his Maj[esty's] Health'. Words are etched on both side of his head: 'Make Haste', addressed to Sheridan (left), who hastens from the door, carrying on his shoulders a trunk inscribed 'Despatches for C. F-x', and (right) 'We must keep up Appearances'. On the right Mrs. Fitzherbert is enthroned under a canopy on a circular dais; a lady (left), wearing the Prince's feathers in her hair, puts on her head a crown, saying, "Hail beautious Queen". Another lady (right) holds the orb. These are inscribed respectively 'Gloc' and 'Gum' and are identified by Miss Banks as Mrs. Dawkins and Miss Pigott. 16 November 1788
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Mrs Dawkins
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 248 millimetres
Width: 353 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,4.34
Notes

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

One of many satires on the crisis resulting from the King's illness, especially interesting in showing how early the negotiations of Thurlow with the Prince were suspected, as a result of his interviews with Sheridan and the Prince of Wales; see letters of 30 Nov. 1788, Buckingham, 'Courts and Cabinets of George III', ii. 23 ff.; Stanhope, 'Life of Pitt', i. 312 ff. (See also BMSat 7398.) Wraxall writes: 'Political prints . . . represented him stripping off his coat and turning it inside out, . . . with an appropriate observation that "one side would do as well as the other".' 'Memoirs', 1884, v. 224. On 9 Nov. the King was thought to be dying. An express was sent to Fox at Bologna and he reached England on 24 Nov. See BMSat 7379, &c. For the Regency crisis see also BMSats 7375, 7378-98, 7474-526, 7528, 7538, 7649, and cf. BMSats 7531, &c, 7554, 7557. For Thurlow and Pitt cf. BMSats 7334, &c, 8097, &c.
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