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The visit to Piccadilly;-or-a Prussian reception.   (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: Hannah Humphrey
Title
The visit to Piccadilly;-or-a Prussian reception.
Description
English: The Prince of Wales (left) leads a goat with the head of Mrs. Fitzherbert (right) to the door of the forecourt of a large town-house, held partly open by the Duchess of York. She says, "O Dunder & Wonder! - what Cratur is dat which you are bringing here ? - relation of mine, indeed? - no, no! - me know no Nanny-goat-Princess! - so set off, with your bargain, you poor - Toasted - Cheese! you! - for she sha'nt come in here, to poison the house! - off! - off! - off." The Prince, who wears in his hat a leek, with his motto, 'ich dien', answers, "Not open the Toor ? - Cot-splutter-a-nails - when Nanny is come to see you, herself? - vhy isn't Nanny a Princess too ? - & a Velch Princess? - and hur is come to visit hur Brothers & hur Sisters! - & not to let hur in? why the Voman is mad, sure!" In place of a star he wears a medallion enclosing a pair of goat's horns. He holds his goat by a ribbon wreathed with roses. Mrs. Fitzherbert has goat's horns and wears a coronet with the Prince's feathers; she looks up at him with an expression of dignified surprise. Beneath the title is etched: 'Representing Shon-ap-Morgan, Shentleman of Wales, introducing his Old Nanny-Goat into high Company.'


The door of the Duke's house is surmounted by a pediment decorated with the Prussian eagle and pairs of doves (an emblem on the Duchess's state-bed, 'Lond. Chronicle', 21 Dec. 1792). 12 July 1792


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Maria Anne Fitzherbert
Date 1792
date QS:P571,+1792-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 353 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6221
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) For the refusal of the Duchess of York to receive Mrs. Fitzherbert cf. BMSat 8077, &c. The Duke of York had taken Melbourne House (renamed York House) in Piccadilly on his marriage. 'Carlton House Magazine', i. 149 (pl.). The leek, the goat, and toasted cheese are emblems of Wales, indicative of its poverty, cf. BMSat 5943. See BMSat 8058, on the back of which is an impression of this print.

Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 137-8. Wright and Evans, No. 40. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6221
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