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The Wisemen of Ireland arrived a day after the fair   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: William Moore
Title
The Wisemen of Ireland arrived a day after the fair
Description
English: A braying ass, a monster with six ass's heads seated on its back, kicks violently with its near hind leg at a door, striking the Prince of Wales's feathers and motto with which it is decorated. From a colonnade beside the door (freely indicated and representing Carlton House) projects the profile of Weltje, saying, "By Cot you may go back - we have de Asses enough already - we vos no Regent" The ass retorts, "No Regent! this comes because you did not settle your differences first, and dispute about them afterwards". The ass has a saddle-cloth on which is a rat nibbling at a crown; 'Address' is inscribed on its hind quarter. Round its' neck is a rope inscribed 'Grattan's' (the address to the Prince was moved by Grattan). The creature on its back bestraddles it with human thighs clad in breeches inscribed 'Extraordinary Deputation'; from its waist protrude six ass's heads on long snake-like necks, two wearing coronets. The ass tramples on papers inscribed 'Loyalty' and 'Allegiance' and on a broken Irish harp inscribed 'Harmony'. 28 February 1789
Etching with hand-colouring
Depicted people Associated with: James Caulfield, 1st Earl of Charlemont
Date 1789
date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 136 millimetres
Width: 197 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,4.83
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The belated arrival (25 Feb.) of the Irish deputation (cf. BMSat 7509) with the address offering the Prince of Wales the unrestricted regency of Ireland excited much ridicule. A paragraph in the World of 26 Feb. announcing their arrival and headed 'A Day after the Fair!' may have inspired this pnnt. For the Irish address see Lecky, 'Hist. of England', 1887, vi. 416-29; 'Hist. MSS. Comm., Charlemont MSS.', ii. 84. The delegates were the Duke of Leinster, the Earl of Charlemont, Thomas Connolly, M.P. for Londonderry, John O'Neill, M.P. for Antrim, W. B. Ponsonby, M.P. for Kilkenny, James Stuart, M.P. for Tyrone. See BMSats 7482 A, 7512, 7513, 7515, 7517, 75I8, 7519, 7526, 7823.

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Pasted on the verso by Sarah Banks are three cuttings from contemporary newspapers relating to the event. They have been given the register numbers J.4-234,5,6, but have not been entered on computer.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-4-83
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