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The Royal joke,- or- Black Jacks delight.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: S W Fores
Title
The Royal joke,- or- Black Jacks delight.
Description
English: A scene in Carlton House. The Prince of Wales, seated in a chair, holds a stout, good-looking lady (Mrs. Sawbridge) across his knees and chastises her with upraised hand; she holds out her arms imploringly. Alderman Sawbridge (right) faces her in profile to the left, playing a fiddle and dancing; from his pocket hangs a piece of music inscribed 'The Reform', a new Motion. On the extreme left Lady Archer stands in profile to the right, holding a driving-whip, and pointing angrily at the injured lady. A little girl (Sawbridge) stands full-face, clasping her hands in horror at the treatment of her mother. Behind are a number of onlookers: a very fat lady in profile to the left is Miss Vanneck. Mrs. Fitzherbert watches, not displeased; Fox, his arm round her shoulder, gazes amorously at her. George Hanger stands in profile to the left. The other figures are less characterized but a profile head (right) resembles Lord Derby. On the wall (right) is part of a three quarter length portrait, the head cut off by the upper edge of the design, inscribed 'Sir G° Van-Ne[ck]'. Beside it is a stag's head on which hangs a man's hat, just above Sawbridge. After the title is etched 'A Hint for a new Reform'. 'Black Jack' is Sawbridge, who was swarthy, and a consistent advocate of Parliamentary Reform. In the background (right) are persons dancing. 25 April 1788
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Depicted people Associated with: Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 250 millimetres
Width: 347 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.398
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The persons have been identified by Miss Banks. Mrs. Sawbridge was a noted beauty, see 'Asylum for Fugitive Pieces', ii. 177. She was a daughter of Sir William Stevenson, a Lord Mayor, and was an 'Opposition lady'. 'Cornwallis Corr.' i. 435. The scandal or scandals depicted are probably imaginary: there is nothing in the character or history of Sawbridge to give colour to such allegations, while it is well known that Fox had gravely offended Mrs. Fitzherbert, but cf. BMSat 7298.

Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 96-7.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-398
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