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The wedding night or the fashionable frolic.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
The wedding night or the fashionable frolic.
Description
English: A companion print to BMSat 6924, &c. The Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert, dancing to the fiddle of George Hanger (right), advance towards an open door (left) through which is seen a large bed, the curtains raised; above the pillows are a crown and triple plume. The feathers are repeated on a chamber-pot under the raised valance of the bed. They are more elaborately dressed than in BMSat 6924; their arms are round each other's waists, the Prince holds with his right hand the left hand of Mrs. Fitzherbert. She wears a small crown, with flowers and ribbons, and triple ostrich plume. George Hanger is dressed as in BMSat 6924; he stands in profile to the left, watching the couple fixedly; a bludgeon hangs from his wrist. An open music-book at his feet shows that he is playing the 'Black Joke'. On the floor (left) are an open book, 'Matrimony', and a torn paper, 'Cirtificate'. Over the door is a picture of Cupid with his bow turning away from Danaë receiving the shower of gold. 21 March 1786
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Maria Anne Fitzherbert
Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 252 millimetres
Width: 351 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,3.89
Notes

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

Sophie v. la Roche in Oct. 1786 saw a crowd gazing at caricatures of 'the life and marriage of the Prince of Wales'; she mentions one showing the bridal chamber, with a picture of Danaë, but notes that the ostrich feathers were 'upside down over the bride's night-chamber'. 'Sophie in London', trans. C. Williams, 1933, p. 262. They are not inverted in this print. 'The Wedding Night' was an unsuccessful musical farce by James Cobb (Haymarket, 1780).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-3-89
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