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The cock of the walk, distributing his favours.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The cock of the walk, distributing his favours.
Description
English: A spurred game-cock without tail-feathers, representing the Prince of Wales, stands in the foreground on a flat tasselled cushion; in his beak is a bunch of three tail-feathers. He looks towards a wheelbarrow (left) drawn by Weltje, in which are bunches of three feathers similar to that in his beak. These are being arranged by George Hanger, who leans over the barrow, holding a bunch inscribed 'Lad[y] M-----ne' [Melbourne]. The other bunches in the barrow are inscribed 'To Lady M------d'; 'To the D------ss of D------e'; 'To Miss Van------k'. On the ground is a bunch, 'To Mrs F.....t'. On the right a smiling oyster-woman points at the bird's denuded tail. The background is formed by shops in Piccadilly, not drawn with topographical precision. In the centre is the shop of 'Fores Purveyer of Caracatures to the Public No 3 Piccadilly', the words written over the door. Above them are the three heads of Burke (left), Fox (centre), and North (right) on spikes but arranged like the balls of a pawnbroker. The windows on each side of the door are divided into nine panes, in each of which is a print, very freely sketched; the central ones are 'Out of Fits' (left) and 'In Fits' (right), see BMSats 8252, 8253; 'Fat & Forty', BMSat 6927, is on the left of the door; 'Figaro', BMSat 6924 in reverse, is on the right. Next it, and on the extreme right of the window is BMSat 6934. On one side of Fores (left) is a poulterer's shop inscribed 'Partrige Purveyer of Geese to His Highness &c'; on the other (right) is 'Bullock Purveyer of Meat to His Highness &c. &c', geese hang in one open shop-front, joints of meat in the other. Over each shop door is a crown with the Prince of Wales's feathers. 31 May 1786
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 289 millimetres
Width: 392 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.299
Notes

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

For Lady Melbourne, the Duchess of Devonshire, and the Prince see Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, v. 370-2, and cf. BMSats 6115, 6263. Miss Vanneck, third daughter of Sir Joshua, 1st Bart., was mentioned by Walpole, 26 Aug. 1795, as one of the Prince's court at Brighton. Lady M------d is perhaps the wife of Viscount Maitland, one of Fox's martyrs, 'a nice little painted doll'. G. E. C, 'Complete Peerage'. For the suspected marriage with Mrs. Fitzherbert see BMSat 6924, &c. Cf. BMSat 6956. In this print Fores seems to declare himself an opponent of the Opposition.
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