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Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson (?)

After: Henry Wigstead
Published by: William Holland
Title
Reformation- or, the wonderful effects of a proclamation!!!
Description
English: The interior of a church (? the Chapel Royal) showing pulpit, side-gallery, and pews beneath the gallery. Wilkes (left) is the preacher, beneath him is his clerk, Pitt. At a right angle to the gallery is the royal pew (right), from which the King looks with earnest attention to the preacher. Queen Charlotte, her fingers to her mouth, also listens attentively. A lady-in-waiting and a courtier with a long wand (Lord Salisbury, the Lord Chamberlain) stand behind. The pew is decorated with the royal arms and has a canopy. In the centre of the gallery sit the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert; he turns away from the preacher, looking at her. Behind him stands George Hanger; behind Mrs. Fitzherbert sits a man looking at Wilkes through a spy-glass. Between him and the royal pew are three men in legal wigs and gowns: Pepper Arden, Dundas, and (?) Kenyon. Between the Prince and the pulpit sit North (asleep) and Burke, looking intently at Wilkes; a lady (? Duchess of Devonshire) attempts to wake North. In the seats under the gallery sit parties of citizens, in general asleep or inattentive. Below the royal pew stands Fox on a low stool as a penitent draped in a sheet; he wears a placard inscribed 'For Playing Cards on the Lord's Day'. A stout lady with an aquiline nose stands near Pitt; with a raised whip she chases a number of dogs out of the church. She has some resemblance to the Duchess of Gordon, a friend of Pitt.


Immediately behind Mrs. Fitzherbert and between two Gothic windows is a wall-tablet inscribed: 'This Tablet is erected to the memory of the renowned Plenipotentiary who died by the bow string a short time after his return to Algiers. Two maiden ladies of this Parish who tasted exquisite felicity from his Prowess, dedicate this frail memorial to his loved memory'. Cf. BMSat 7935, &c.
Immediately behind Mrs. Fitzherbert and between two Gothic windows is a wall-tablet inscribed: 'This Tablet is erected to the memory of the renowned Plenipotentiary who died by the bow string a short time after his return to Algiers. Two maiden ladies of this Parish who tasted exquisite felicity from his Prowess, dedicate this frail memorial to his loved memory'. Cf. BMSat 7935, &c. 5 November 1787


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Depicted people Associated with: Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron of Alvanley
Date 1787
date QS:P571,+1787-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 269 millimetres
Width: 392 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,4.101
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A satire on the royal proclamation of 1 June 1787 'For the encouragement of Piety and Virtue and for preventing and punishing of Vice, Profaneness, and Immorality', which laid especial stress on the observance of Sunday. 'Gent. Mag.', 1787, i. 534 f. This was obtained by Wilberforce who started a 'society for enforcing' it, known as the 'Proclamation Society'. 'Life of Wilberforce', by his sons, 1838, i. 132-8, 393-4.

Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 220-1.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-4-101
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