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The Devonshire amusement.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
The Devonshire amusement.
Description
English: A design in two compartments, the Duchess of Devonshire (left) 'politic mad', and the Duke (right) attending to his infant.


[1] The Duchess stands looking to the left, her hair partly loosened and streaming in the wind which blows her petticoats. She holds in her right hand a long staff, on which is the head of Fox, and two pendant foxes' brushes; on a cross-piece is the word 'Liberty'. In her right hand is a ribbon from which hangs a large flat ribbon-trimmed hat; in her hair are ostrich feathers (cf. BMSat 6530). In her left hand she holds out a print of (?) the Prince of Wales, whole length, leaning against a horse. [It resembles Reynolds's portrait of the Duke of Devonshire] She is saying "A Prince should not be limited". On the ground at her feet is a paper inscribed 'Secret Influence', and a print which is copied in reverse from BMSat 6520. A loosened garter hangs beneath her petticoat bearing the Cavendish motto, 'Cavendo tutus'. Across the front of her bodice is a large 'Fox' favour. A bird stands on a cloud above her head saying, "No Tax on Maidenheads no Wray". It resembles a dove but may be intended for the bird (? a starling) which appears in prints of the Duchess canvassing the butchers.
For the attachment of the Prince of Wales to the Duchess see Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, v. 370-2, and BMSat 6263.
[2] The Duke sits on a chair, his infant face downwards on his knee; he appears to be changing her napkin; clean towels hang over a line beside him; at his feet is the cradle. He is saying, "This Work does not suit my Fancy. Ah William every one must be cursed that like thee takes a Politic Mad Wife". From his coat-pocket hangs a paper, 'Letters to Married Women'. On the back of his chair is a ducal coronet. On the ground is a paper, 'Your Votes are requested for C. J. Fox'. Beside the duke (left) is a round table on which are a tea-pot and cup. On the wall are his hat and a bust portrait of himself with horns. On a shelf are pieces of pottery, including the headless figure of a woman. A curtain is draped across the upper right corner of the design. 24 June 1784


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Depicted people Associated with: Georgiana Dorothy Cavendish
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 262 millimetres
Width: 365 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5351
Notes

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

A newspaper paragraph alleged: 'While her Grace is busied in canvassing the Constituents, her domestic husband is employed in the nursery-----' 'Westminster Election', p. 234. Cf. BMSat 6546, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5351
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