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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: James Aitken
Title
Fording the Jordan
Description
English: The Duke of Clarence, in naval uniform, stands immersed to the waist in the contents of a large, cracked, chamber-pot. Mrs. Jordan, scantily draped, reclines lasciviously, as if painted on the pot, on one edge of which she puts her hand. He says "I shall be lost in the Jordan"; she says, looking up at him, "Where should a wounded Tar be but in the Cockpit?" The pot is inscribed "1000l a year for the use of the Jordan." 8 November 1791
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Portrait of: William IV, King of the United Kingdom
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 297 millimetres
Width: 240 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1868,0808.6119
Notes

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

For puns on Ford, &c, in connexion with Mrs. Jordan and the Duke of Clarence, see BMSat 7835, &c. The Duke made her an allowance of £1,000 a year. 'D.N.B.', s.v. William IV.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6119
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