File:Print, satirical print (BM 1945,0512.69).jpg
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[edit]print, satirical print ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
print, satirical print |
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Description |
English: Mary of Modena sits at left and rocks a cradle containing 'The Old Pretender' at right; Father Petre puts his arm round Mary's neck in an intimate gesture. 1688
Mezzotint |
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Depicted people | Representation of: Mary of Modena, Queen of James II | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1688 date QS:P571,+1688-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
Height: 247 millimetres (trimmed)
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1945,0512.69 |
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Notes |
(Text from Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Stuart Britain', BM 1998, cat. 209) The unexpected birth of a son to Queen Mary of Modena in 1688, after numerous miscarriages and deaths of her previous babies, presented a severe challenge to William's Protestant propagandists. The obvious tactic was to cast doubt on the child's legitimacy, and two lines were peddled. The first was to accuse Father Edward Petre, her confessor, and a member of the Privy Council, of excessive intimacy with her. The other was to claim that the baby was not hers, but was the son of a miller's wife and had been substituted. This print alludes to both stories, hence the windmill in the cradle. Prints such as these would have counted as high treason in England, and before the Revolution could only be produced in the Netherlands. They retained their purpose after 1689, as part of William's campaign to justify the invasion and seizure of the throne. Craig Hartley and Catharine MacLeod have pointed out ('Supposititious Prints', Print Quarterly, VI, 1989, pp. 49-54) that the composition of this print is copied from an 'official' view of the Queen with her child by Bernard Lens, published by Edward Cooper. By adding Petre, the windmill and the Dutch verses the meaning is completely altered. The group of Queen and cradle was also adapted by Romeyn de Hooghe for a large satire, L'Europe allarmé pour le fils d'un meunier (BMSat 1158).The print is anonymous. Hollstein attributes it in vol.VII to Jacob Gole (no.235), while in vol.XXV it is listed as one of the publications of Pieter Schenck (no.2068). They were the leading Dutch mezzotinters of the period. Gole (c.1660-1724) was of French origin, his father being the famous cabinet-maker Pierre Gole. He seems to have emigrated to the Netherlands c.1684, and established a connection with Cornelis Dusart. Gole's work is usually signed and of high quality, which suggests that this print is in fact by Schenck, whose huge output covered work of the most varied kinds. Schenck was brother-in-law to Gerard Valck. Neither Gole nor Schenck seems ever to have visited London. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1945-0512-69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
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