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Cupid conducting the three Graces to the Temple of Love   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Published by: E King

Printed by: George Lee
Title
Cupid conducting the three Graces to the Temple of Love
Description
English: Three men march together arm-in-arm and taking long strides towards the house (right) of Harriette Wilson, the name on the door, above which is an open window from which she looks out, saying, One at a time if you please Gentlemen and I'm not afraid of twice as many. Wellington, in uniform with sword and cavalry boots, is in the middle and taller than the other two, one being a slim parson (Lord Frederick Beauclerk), the other the Duke of Argyll in Highland costume. A naked Cupid with tiny wings runs before them, beckoning; he carries a pennant on which is a Union Jack and Vive L'Amour. Wellington says: She is a fine Girl I assure you and I declare she has run more in my mind than Spaniards Russuians or French, if this guide leads us into an ambush I shall have him hanged. Argyll says: Eh Lord Sirs there she is and as bonny a lassy as there's in a-Britain including Argyleshire I am thinking you twa had better stay where you are till I come bock again, as I am an unco Judge of the Premises. Beauclerk: I hope I have too much good manners to refuse seeing a pretty Girl and though I belong to the Church I dont think She will find much Cant about Me. March 1825.
Hand-coloured lithograph
Depicted people Associated with: George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll
Date 1825
date QS:P571,+1825-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 220 millimetres
Width: 344 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1935,0522.6.149
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(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952)

Wellington and Argyll were allegedly rivals (but see Journal of Mrs. Arbuthnot, 1950 i, 378): on the night of the former's return from victory in Spain he stood in the rain under her window, imploring admittance, while Argyll leaned out pretending to be an old woman refusing him entrance, see Nos. 14834, 14841. Beauclerk, called by Harriette 'the little parson' and 'the worthy clergyman', son of the 5th Duke of St. Albans, was vicar of Redbourne and a noted cricketer. See Memoirs, 1929, pp. 126-30, 193-5, 617-18.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-6-149
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