File:Weeding by the head gardener (BM 1868,0808.9048).jpg
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[edit]Weeding by the head gardener ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: Robert Seymour (?)
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Title |
Weeding by the head gardener |
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Description |
English: Wellington (left) as a gardener, in shirtsleeves, with a blue apron over his white trousers, holds a hoe towards a flower-bed containing monstrous plants: rank leaves on stalks supporting globular money-bags of divers colours, and a mitre. These surround a cross inscribed 'Protestant Church Planted By Ewd [sic] VI', which springs from a rosette of leaves inscribed 'truth', 'Charity', 'Justice', 'Humility', 'Temperance', 'faith'. The encroaching leaves are: 'pomps & Vanities', 'gluttony', 'Covetousness', 'opression', 'drunkeness', 'pride'. On the bags are sums varying from '£80000' to '£5000'; some disgorge coins-resembling bunches of fruit. The flower-bed is backed by a low ornamental wall on which the King leans, looking over to say: 'Mind Arthur you dont injure the Church'. The Duke, holding a lorgnette to his eyes, answers: 'Oh no Sir only I must hoe away some of these weeds or they'll choke it'. In the background are two birds wearing clerical hat, wig, and bands; one sits on the withered branch of a tree; they cry 'Caw Caw' and 'Caw'. c. June 1829
Hand-coloured etching |
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Depicted people | Associated with: Edward IV, King of England | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
circa 1829 date QS:P571,+1829-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
Height: 247 millimetres
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.9048 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954) See No. 15819. Wellington is credited with a policy which was not his, see No. 15791, &c. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-9048 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Date and time of digitizing | 11:31, 22 July 2009 |
File change date and time | 11:34, 22 July 2009 |
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