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Filial Piety!   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson

Published by: S W Fores
Title
Filial Piety!
Description
English: The Prince of Wales in a drunken frolic enters the King's bedroom, followed by Hanger and Sheridan. The King (right) lies under a tent-shaped canopy with curtains; he turns his head from his son, looking down with an expression of misery; his right arm is outstretched as if to ward off the intruders. By his bedside, between the Prince and the King, sits an elderly bishop, exclaiming in horror; in his hand is a paper inscribed 'A Prayer Restoration of Health Amen'. The Prince has overturned a circular table, a Communion cup lies on the ground. He reels drunkenly with folded arms, saying, '"Damme, come along, I'll see if the Old Fellow's------or not" --'. Hanger and Sheridan are dancing with glee. Hanger, wearing his hat, holds a bottle in both hands; Sheridan waves his hat. On the wall is a picture of 'The Prodigal Son', partly obscured by the label issuing from the Prince's mouth. 25 November 1788
Etching and aquatint
Depicted people Associated with: George IV, King of the United Kingdom
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 249 millimetres
Width: 342 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5793
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 Regency crisis, see BMSat 7377, &c, in which, however, the Prince is usually treated with respect, cf. the implication of BMSat 7380.

Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 229.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5793
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