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An extravaganza or young Solomon besieging Fitzhubbub.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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An extravaganza or young Solomon besieging Fitzhubbub.
Description
English: A companion print to BMSat 6954. Design in a circle. Mrs. Fitzherbert sits on a settee; the Prince of Wales kneels at her feet, holding her left hand, his right hand on his breast; they face each other in profile, her expression calculating, his artless. She wears a very large hat trimmed with three feathers; in her right hand is a paper inscribed, 'Articles of Capitulation 8,000 Per An. A Duchess in my own right. The mockery of Marriage by a Priest and a Parson'. The words are followed by a cross and a rosary. Behind her, on the back of the settee, sits an owl, emblem of wisdom. Above the Prince's head, within a frame, as if in a picture, are a braying ass's head, a fool's cap, and a birch-rod. Outside the circle, in the corners of the plate, are four inscriptions:



[1] "She's wholly your's. My heart's so full of joy
"That I shall do some wild extravagance
"Of love in publick, and the foolish world,
"Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad."

[2] "Go! whither? go from all that's excellent!
"Faith, honour, virtue, all good things, forbid
"That I should go from her on whom my love is set
"Above the price of kingdoms. Give, ye gods!
"Give to your boy, your Caesar,
"This rattle of a globe to play withal,
"This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off;
'I'll not be pleas'd with less than"------

[3] The Governess of the Fort, and Garrison of Fitzhubbub ; after a political resistance of time prpper, surrenders to the besieger; as by the articles of capitulation.

[4] It would be sin,
That I------,
Should want a cap and rod.
Yet no one fears,
But with long ears,
He will be crowned a God. 1 May 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: 292 millimetres
Width: 397 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5526
Notes

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

One of many prints on the suspected marriage, see BMSat 6924, &c. As in BMSat 6953 the Prince is the tool of Mrs. Fitzherbert.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5526
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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