File:The new birth (BM 1868,0808.5896).jpg
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[edit]The new birth
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Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank
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| Title |
The new birth |
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| Description |
English: Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) in bed, supported on her right elbow, looks fixedly towards a warming-pan held by a stout woman who approaches the foot of the bed. In the perforations of the pan are stuck three ostrich feathers; a monk, holding up a crucifix, gazes down at it. Mrs. Fitzherbert wears a large frilled cap and a nightdress with ruffles. The fringed bed-curtains are looped up. On the extreme right is part of a draped table on which are a cup, bowl, and a large urn (probably materials for caudle). On the wall are three pictures: one, the 'Royal Hunt', a man galloping beside hounds; this has the motto 'Ich Ich' (in place of 'Ich dien') with three ostrich feathers. It is flanked by two profile heads facing each other: one is 'Wig', the other 'Torey', but they do not appear to be portraits. The carpet is patterned with Prince of Wales's feathers. 17 December 1789.
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Maria Anne Fitzherbert | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1789 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions |
Height: 254 millimetres
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Prints and Drawings |
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| Accession number |
1868,0808.5896 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The warming-pan is probably intended to suggest a spurious birth (with priestly connivance), as in the case of the son of James II (cf. BMSat 1156). There were many rumours that Mrs. Fitzherbert was pregnant, cf. BMSat 6954, &c. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5896 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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